A Clinical Trial of Interventions to Support Family Surrogates of Critically Ill Patients
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Brief summary
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Hypotheses 1a and 1b: Compared to Supportive Conversation arm, the EMPOWER intervention will significantly decrease surrogate decision makers' symptoms of grief and Post Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD) (primary outcomes); and H1b. experiential avoidance, depression, regrets, and increases in patients' value-concordant care (secondary outcomes) at T1-T4. Hypothesis 2. Qualitative data will provide insights not captured by quantitative data. Hypothesis 3. Reductions in experiential avoidance will mediate reductions in grief and Post Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD) symptoms, highlighting it as important to target in future implementation.
Study identification
- NCT ID
- NCT05587517
- Recruitment status
- Active, not recruiting
- Study type
- Interventional
- Phase
- Phase 2
- Enrollment
- 172 participants
Conditions and interventions
Conditions
Eligibility (public fields only)
- Age range
- 18 Years and older
- Sex
- All
- Healthy volunteers
- Accepts healthy volunteers
This page does not interpret eligibility. Detailed inclusion and exclusion criteria are on the official ClinicalTrials.gov record.
Study timeline
- Start date
- Oct 11, 2022 (Actual)
- Primary completion
- Jan 31, 2027 (Estimated)
- Completion
- Dec 11, 2027 (Estimated)
- Last update posted
- Sep 25, 2026
2022 – 2027
United States locations
- U.S. sites
- 3
- U.S. states
- 2
- U.S. cities
- 2
| Facility | City | State | ZIP | Site status |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| University of Miami | Miami | Florida | 33136 | — |
| Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center | New York | New York | 10021 | — |
| NewYork-Presbyterian Weill Cornell Medicine | New York | New York | 10065 | — |
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- Last update posted Sep 25, 2026 · Synced Oct 25, 2026
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