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Intensive care medicine · Feb 2019
Observational StudyTailored multicomponent program for discomfort reduction in critically ill patients may decrease post-traumatic stress disorder in general ICU survivors at 1 year.
- Pierre Kalfon, Marine Alessandrini, Mohamed Boucekine, Stéphanie Renoult, Marie-Agnès Geantot, Stéphanie Deparis-Dusautois, Audrey Berric, Olivier Collange, Bernard Floccard, Olivier Mimoz, Amour Julien, René Robert, Juliette Audibert, Anne Renault, Arnaud Follin, Didier Thevenin, Nathalie Revel, Marion Venot, René-Gilles Patrigeon, Thomas Signouret, Mélanie Fromentin, Tarek Sharshar, Coralie Vigne, Julien Pottecher, Quentin Levrat, Achille Sossou, Maïté Garrouste-Orgeas, Quenot Jean-Pierre JP Réanimation médicale, CHU Dijon Bourgogne, Dijon, France., Claire Boulle, Elie Azoulay, Karine Baumstarck, Pascal Auquier, and IPREA-AQVAR Study Group.
- Réanimation Polyvalente, Hôpital Louis Pasteur, Hôpitaux de Chartres, 28018, Le Coudray, France. pkalfon@ch-chartres.fr.
- Intensive Care Med. 2019 Feb 1; 45 (2): 223-235.
PurposeReducing discomfort in the intensive care unit (ICU) should have a positive effect on long-term outcomes. This study assessed whether a tailored multicomponent program for discomfort reduction was effective in reducing post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) symptoms at 1 year in general ICU survivors.MethodsThis study is a prospective observational comparative effectiveness cohort study involving 30 ICUs. It was an extension of the IPREA3 study, a cluster-randomized controlled trial designed to assess the efficacy of a tailored multicomponent program to reduce discomfort in critically ill patients. The program included assessment of ICU-related self-perceived discomforts, immediate and monthly feedback to the healthcare team, and site-specific tailored interventions. The exposure was the implementation of this program. The eligible patients were exposed versus unexposed general adult ICU survivors. The prevalence of substantial PTSD symptoms at 1 year was assessed based on the Impact of Event Scale-Revised (IES-R).ResultsOf the 1537 ICU survivors included in the study, 475 unexposed patients and 344 exposed patients had follow-up data at 1 year: 57 (12.0%) and 21 (6.1%) presented with PTSD at 1 year, respectively (p = 0.004). Considering the clustering and after adjusting for age, gender, McCabe classification, and ICU-related self-perceived overall discomfort score, exposed patients were significantly less likely than unexposed patients to have substantial PTSD symptoms at 1 year (p = 0.015).ConclusionsImplementation of a tailored multicomponent program in the ICU that has proved to be effective for reducing self-perceived discomfort in general adult ICU survivors also reduced the prevalence of substantial PTSD symptoms at 1 year.Trial RegistrationClinicalTrials.gov identifier NCT02762409.
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