ARDS-Patient

• Research type

  Research Study

• Full title

  Patient and Relative Perceptions Around Emergency Research in Acute Respiratory Distress Syndrome (ARDS)

• IRAS ID

  286953

• Contact name

  Callum T Kaye

• Contact email

  callum.kaye@nhs.scot

• Sponsor organisation

  NHS Grampian

• Duration of Study in the UK

  0 years, 5 months, 7 days

• Research summary

  Acute Respiratory Distress Syndrome, or ARDS, is a serious problem, accounting for approximately of 10% of ICU admissions worldwide. It causes severe lung damage and a third of patients die, despite being treated in an Intensive Care Unit (ICU) with a ventilator. Trials testing new treatments are needed.

  Trials in ARDS are challenging for a number of reasons. Patients are unconscious, very unwell and the trial process needs to be efficient so patients can be easily recruited without impacting their care. Little is known about the beliefs of patients and their relatives around their recruitment into such trials or outcomes they feel are important.

  This study will involve the use of facilitated interviews to identify the thoughts of previous ICU patients and their relatives regarding:

  * The acceptability of being approached to take part in such a trial
  * Their thoughts around potential consent processes
  * What aspects of the trial or the patient would influence a decision to consent for enrolment into a trial
  *What outcomes from such a trial are important to patients

• REC name

  West Midlands - Solihull Research Ethics Committee

• REC reference

  20/WM/0251

• Date of REC Opinion

  9 Sep 2020

• REC opinion

  Further Information Favourable Opinion