New app aims to ease mental struggles after ICU stays
NCT ID NCT06504979
First seen Jun 27, 2026 · Last updated Jun 27, 2026
Summary
This study tests a digital platform called ICURA to help ICU survivors and their families manage emotional, cognitive, and physical problems that often occur after intensive care. About 360 adults who were in the ICU will be randomly assigned to use the app or receive standard follow-up care. The goal is to see if the app improves quality of life and daily functioning over 12 months.
What this could mean
Our plain-language read of the trial. This is informational only, not medical advice or a prediction.
- Active substance
- digital telehealth platform (ICURA)
- What this could lead to
- If successful, this could provide a practical, scalable way to improve mental health and daily functioning for ICU survivors and their families during the first year after discharge.
- What could go wrong
- This is an observational study, not a treatment trial, so it cannot prove cause and effect. The digital tool may not work for everyone, and results may vary based on individual circumstances.
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Study facts
What this study's own registry entry says, in plain language.
- Phase
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Not a phased trial
Phase numbers describe drug development. The registry uses this when they do not apply, as it does for trials of devices, procedures or behaviour changes, and for observational studies.
- Participants
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About 360 people
The number the study aims to enrol. It can still change while the study runs.
- Started
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Oct 2024
- Expected to finish
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Jan 2027
An estimate. End dates often move.
- Lead sponsor
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Other sponsor
The registry's catch-all category, for sponsors it does not file as a company, a government agency, or a research network.
Who can take part
This study's own entry requirements. Only the study team can say for certain whether you qualify.
- Ages
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18 to 89 years
- Sex
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Anyone
- Healthy volunteers
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Not accepted
This study is not open to healthy volunteers. The entry requirements below say who it is open to.
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Copied word for word from the study's registry entry, so the wording is the study team's rather than ours.
Inclusion Criteria: * Adult (≥18 years old) critically ill patients admitted to the ICU with or without need of invasive mechanical ventilation (IMV). Exclusion Criteria: * Non-authorization of the relatives and/or patient to inclusion in the study; neurocritical ICU patients. * Severe neurological pathology (including dementia or focal brain damage with functional and cognitive impairment) prior to admission to the ICU. * Severe psychiatric pathology (schizophrenia, bipolar disorder, major depressive disorder) * Intellectual disability (IQ \<80). * Patients who develop secondary complications (infections, stroke, TBI or any non-transient acquired brain damage) after ICU discharge, that may compromise the results of the emotional and neuropsychological evaluation during the recovery phase * Moderate-severe cognitive impairment (Short-IQCODE \>85) that impair ICU patients an independent participation in the telematic follow up and accompaniment program * Readmission to ICU within 12 months after discharge from ICU * Idiomatic barrier (non spanish and/or catalan speaker) * Patients with life expectancy \<1 year or not subsidiaries of active treatment measures.
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Conditions
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Contacts and locations
Locations
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Institut d'Investigació i Innovació Parc Taulí
Sabadell, Barcelona, 08208, Spain
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