Parents' Experience of Their Children Stay in a Pediatric Intensive Care Unit.
- Conditions
- Intensive Care Unit Syndrome
- Registration Number
- NCT03828552
- Lead Sponsor
- Hospices Civils de Lyon
- Brief Summary
Children recovered in pediatric intensive care unit (PICU) suffer from severe conditions, sometimes life-threatening. Thus, priority is given to urgent somatic care, children medicalization is strong, invasive technics have to be used, and medical monitoring is close.
A stay in PICU often leaves a painful memory to the child and family, and can lead to psychological morbidity such as post-traumatic stress disease.
This study aims to assess parents' experience during their child hospitalization in PICU, and the impact of this stay on the entire family in the following month.
- Detailed Description
Not available
Recruitment & Eligibility
- Status
- COMPLETED
- Sex
- All
- Target Recruitment
- 47
- Parent (mother or /and father) of a recovered child in PICU.
- No limit of age, disease or admission mode.
- First stay in PICU, for at least a 3 days stay.
- Parents having been informed and having accepted the participation in the study.
- Death of the child during the stay in PICU or during the month following the discharge from PICU
- Non-fluent french speakers/readers.
Study & Design
- Study Type
- OBSERVATIONAL
- Study Design
- Not specified
- Primary Outcome Measures
Name Time Method Assessment of the impact on the family of this PICU stay of their child 1 month Analysis of french written answers on a feedback form of about 10 pages (free written answers or Likert scale)
Analyse qualitatively the parents'experience during the PICU stay of their child 1 month Analysis of french written answers on a feedback form of about 10 pages (free written answers or Likert scale)
- Secondary Outcome Measures
Name Time Method
Trial Locations
- Locations (1)
Pediatric intensive care unit of Women-Mother-Children Hospital
🇫🇷Bron, France