The overarching goal of our work is to test the effect of high-quality spiritual care for ICU family surrogates on outcomes of psychological and spiritual well-being and medical decision making. Our team has developed an approach to high quality spiritual care intervention for ICU surrogates, called the Spiritual Care Assessment and Intervention (SCAI) framework, which is delivered by a chaplain interventionist to ICU surrogates.
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AI-rewrites the medical criteria so a patient or caregiver can understand them. Always confirm with the trial site.
Effect of the intervention on surrogate anxiety (GAD-7)
Timeframe: Assessed at baseline and 6-8 weeks after the patient has discharged from the hospital