Can a Patient in Intensive Care be Visited by His or Her Pet?
For patients and families
In plain language
An automatic summary of structured registry data. It is an orientation aid, not a substitute for the official protocol or a physician assessment.
- What is being studied
- The protocol lists: Pet visit.
- Who it may be relevant to
- Registry conditions: Intensive Care Patients. Basic parameters: from 18 years · All.
- What needs checking
- Age, condition and sex are only basic indicators. Prior treatment, laboratory values and other mandatory requirements appear in the eligibility criteria below.
- Where it takes place
- France
- Next step
- Save the trial, show it to the treating physician, and confirm current recruitment with the study center. Costs, documents and travel →
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Official title
Can a Patient in Intensive Care be Visited by His or Her Pet? Feasibility Study.
Overview
Nearly half of all intensive care patients describe symptoms of anxiety and depression after a stay in the ICU, and one in five has genuine post-traumatic stress disorder. As a result, improving patient experience has become a priority in the ICU, and particular attention is being paid to the need to recreate a familiar environment. Animal-mediated interventions have been developed for a number of patients over many years. These strategies are widely used with elderly patients, and patients with cognitive or psychiatric disorders, for whom the literature shows benefits on anxiety, mood or objective signs of stress. In the vast majority of experiments carried out to date, the animals (mainly dogs) were prepared and educated for contact with patients, and their handlers trained in this activity, rather like guide dogs. Visiting a care facility with a patient's own pet is rarely described. It may run up against obstacles related to the animal's behavior or infectious risks, but it is nevertheless authorized in many establishments.
Interventions
- Other Pet visit
Intensive care patients visited by their pets for 20 minutes
Primary outcome measures
- Feasibility of visiting the pets [Time frame: Day 15]
Secondary outcome measures (5)
- PANAS [Time frame: Day 1]
- Paramedical care [Time frame: Day 1]
- Patient microbiological impact [Time frame: Day 1]
- Intensive care unity microbiological impact [Time frame: Day 1]
- Patient satisfaction [Time frame: 3 months]
Eligibility criteria
Inclusion criteria
- Conscious adult patients with a pet (dog/cat).
- Patients with no or no longer hemodynamic or respiratory failure, or undergoing rehabilitation, after resolution of the acute phase or at the end of life.
- Patients affiliated to or entitled under a social security scheme.
- Patient who has given written informed consent to participate in the study.
Exclusion criteria
- Non-stabilized acute situation (as assessed by the resuscitator).
- Mechanical or amine ventilation or extrarenal purification.
- Tracheostomy.
- Immunosuppression.
- Carriage of multi-resistant bacteria.
- Behavioral or consciousness disorders.
- Pregnancy.
- Skin wounds, extensive burns exceeding 15% of body surface area, external fixator.
- Guardianship or trusteeship.
- Workload incompatible with the visit
- Patient unable to speak French.
Criteria are shown verbatim from the registry (in English). Final eligibility is always assessed by the study center.
Healthy volunteers: No
Study design
- Allocation
- N/A
- Model
- Single group
- Masking
- Open label
- Primary purpose
- Other
Study locations
France · 2 centers
- Centre Hospitalier Ardèche Nord — Annonay
- Centre Hospitalier de Saint-Etienne — Saint-Etienne
Identifiers
NCT: NCT06121050 · 21PH263 · 2023-A01439-36