ICU sedation, delirium & recovery
Effects of an online information tool on post-traumatic stress disorder in relatives of intensive care unit patients: a multicenter double-blind, randomized, placebo-controlled trial (ICU-Families-Study)
- prematurely stopped
- Recruitment prematurely stopped in February 2020 due to COVID-19
Authors' conclusion
Family members of critically ill patients often have significant PTSD symptoms and online information on critical illness did not result in reduced PTSD symptoms.
Study context
- Population
- Family members of critically ill intensive care unit (ICU) patients, Austria and Switzerland
- Participants
- 89 members
- Comparison
- Information website on intensive care vs control website
- Interventionn = 46
- Controln = 43reference
- Primary endpoint
- Mean IES score
- Follow-up
- ≈30 days after inclusion, T1
Methodological detailsmulticentre, double-blind, placebo-controlled
- Multicentre
- Double-blind
- Placebo-controlled
Primary result
As reported in the abstract
IES score · ~ 30 days after inclusion (T1)
Intervention
23.9
mean · SD 17.9
Control
24.1
mean · SD 13.5
P = 0.892
Further findings
Website use (clicks)
- Website use (clicks) — Total clicks
- 1386
Clinically relevant post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) symptoms at baseline (all participants)
- Proportion with clinically relevant PTSD symptoms
- 50%
- Baseline Impact of Event Scale (IES) score (mean ± SD)
- 27.5 ± 12.7
HADS-D score · T1
- Overall HADS-D score (mean ± SD; min. 3, max. 31)
- 12.2 ± 6.1
- Did not differ between groups
Original publication
Effects of an online information tool on post-traumatic stress disorder in relatives of intensive care unit patients: a multicenter double-blind, randomized, placebo-controlled trial (ICU-Families-Study). Intensive Care Med. Published 23 October 2023. doi:10.
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