Kimberley J Haines, Elizabeth Hibbert, Elizabeth H Skinner, Nina Leggett, Clare Holdsworth, Yasmine Ali Abdelhamid, Samantha Bates, Erin Bicknell, Sarah Booth, Jacki Carmody, Adam M Deane, Kate Emery, K J Farley, Craig French, Lauren Krol, Belinda MacLeod-Smith, Lynne Maher, Melanie Paykel, Theodore J Iwashyna
BACKGROUND: Peer support is a promising intervention to mitigate post-ICU disability, however there is a paucity of rigorously designed studies. OBJECTIVES: The objective of this study was to establish feasibility of an in-person, co-designed, peer-support model. METHODS: Prospective, randomised, adaptive, single-centre pilot trial with blinded outcome assessment, conducted at a university-affiliated hospital in Melbourne, Australia. Intensive care unit survivors (and their nominated caregiver, where survivor and caregiver are referred to as a dyad), >18 years of age, able to speak and understand English and participate in phone surveys, were eligible...
February 14, 2024: Australian Critical Care: Official Journal of the Confederation of Australian Critical Care Nurses