SuspendedNot Applicable

Web-based Follow-up to Former ICU Patients

Stopped: The researcher is no longer a PhD student

Sweden330 participantsStarted 2019-01-07

Plain-language summary

This study evaluates if a web-based 1-year programme is a useful method for follow-up intensive care survivors with short ICU-stay. Half of the participants are randomized into receiving the web-based follow-up while the other half will receive no follow-up.

Who can participate

Age range18 Years

SexALL

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Inclusion Criteria: * ≥18 years of age. * Treated at the ICU under the time of the study. * Have a Bank-id (which is needed to log in to the website.) Exclusion Criteria: * Institutionalized due to severe cognitive deficit. * Does not communicate in the Swedish language. * Patient is moved from other ICU to ICU where study is being held. * Patient is sent to another ICU from ICU where study is being held. * No home address. * Patient decline to participate in study. * Patient is receiving psychiatric specialist care post-icu e.g. high suicide risk. * Patient is receiving ICU-treatment due to violence and is under on-going police-investigation. * Palliative care. * Patient receiving in-hospital care for more than 4 weeks in a row (except patient who is cared for in physical rehab-clinic at the hospital).

What they're measuring

Web-based follow up post-ICU impact on participants mental status concerning PTSD compared with no follow-up.

Timeframe: Questionnaire will be sent out at 2, 6 and 12 month post-ICU.

Web-based follow up post-ICU impact on participants mental status regarding depression

Timeframe: Questionnaire will be sent out at 2, 6 and 12 month post-ICU.

Web-based follow up post-ICU impact on participants ability to deal with health related problems

Timeframe: Questionnaire will be sent out at 2, 6 and 12 month post-ICU.

Web-based follow-up post-ICU impact on participants physical activity level compared with no follow-up?

Timeframe: Questionnaires are sent out at 2, 6 and 12 month post-ICU.

Participants will be asked what their opinions is on using web-based follow-up.

Timeframe: Questionnaire are sent at the end of the study-period.

Trial details

NCT IDNCT04317144

SponsorUppsala University

Sponsor typeOTHER

Study typeINTERVENTIONAL

Primary completion2027-10

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