Objectives: To determine the efficacy of a multicomponent nursing program to prevent delirium in critically ill patients.
Methods: Parallel controlled randomized clinical trial to prevent delirium in 81 critically ill patients: 41 in the control group and 40 in the intervention group (intervention: spatial and temporal guidance, visual stimulus, auditive stimulus, and family support). Participants were recruited from September 2017 to March 2018 in the university hospital Los Comuneros, Bucaramanga, Colombia.
Objective: To determine the effectiveness of a nursing intervention for delirium prevention in critically ill patients.
Method: A quasi-experimental study was conducted with a non-equivalent control group and with evaluation before and after the intervention. 157 Patients were part of the intervention group and 134 of the control group.