icuRESOLVE

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  Principal Investigator
  Associate Professor Kimberley Haines

  kimberley.haines@wh.org.au

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Project Details

ICU Recovery Solutions Co-Led through Survivor Engagement

Background:

International and local research indicates that Intensive Care Unit (ICU) survivors (patients and families) experience adverse outcomes.  In Australia, ICU survivors return home with little or no follow-up. Peer support, which brings survivors together to share experiences, holds potential to improve post-ICU outcomes although this warrants exploration.

A/Prof Haines and team have led two feasibility trials investigating in-person and digital peer support groups (Haines et al, 2024, Aust Crit Care). They found that a digital health model, was feasible to deliver with regards to attendance rates, recruitment, and participant satisfaction. This model is now ready for a larger, multi-site randomised controlled evaluation. This trial will be a parallel group (1:1:1), three-arm, randomised controlled trial, with blinded outcome assessment aiming to recruit 288 participants (across hospitals in VIC and ACT).

The aims are to evaluate the effectiveness of improving self-reported health status of survivors, at 90 days post hospital discharge when randomised to:

1. Digital peer support group and an ICU recovery booklet;
2. An ICU recovery booklet alone
3. Usual care

Researchers

Dr Yasmine Ali Abdelhamid
Ms Samantha Bates
Prof Sue Berney
Ms Sarah Booth
Ms Erin Bicknell
Ms Jacki Carmody
Prof Adam Deane
Dr KJ Farley
Ms Liz Hibbert
A/Prof Emily Karahalios
Mr George Kiossoglou
Dr Cameron Knott
Dr Philippe Le Fevre
Ms Nina Leggett
Ms Belinda Mac-Leod Smith
Dr Matthew Maiden
Dr Sumeet Rai
A/Prof An Duy Tran

Funding

NHMRC Investigator Grant 2022-2026

Research Publications

Haines, K. J., Hibbert, E., Skinner, E. H., Leggett, N., Holdsworth, C., Ali Abdelhamid, Y., Bates, S., Bicknell, E., Booth, S., Carmody, J., Deane, A. M., Emery, K., Farley, K. J., French, C., Krol, L., MacLeod-Smith, B., Maher, L., Paykel, M., & Iwashyna, T. J. (2024). In-person peer support for critical care survivors: The ICU REcovery Solutions cO-Led through surVivor Engagement (ICURESOLVE) pilot randomised controlled trial. Australian Critical Care. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.aucc.2024.01.006