Telephone Follow-up From an Intensive Care Nursery
- Conditions
- Information Retention
- Registration Number
- NCT00604240
- Lead Sponsor
- Christiana Care Health Services
- Brief Summary
The first few weeks after leaving the Neonatal Intensive Care Unit (NICU) can be a difficult transition time for caregivers of a previously hospitalized infant. To help ease this stressful period, doctors and nurses give caregivers a large amount of information prior to their infant leaving the NCIU. How much caregivers remember about medications, follow-up appointments, and general well-child care has not been studied. Caregivers who choose to participate will receive a phone call 2-7 days after discharge where they will be asked questions pertaining to the information that was discussed with them at the time of discharge. The purpose of the study is to determine how much information caregivers retain after leaving the NICU.
- Detailed Description
Not available
Recruitment & Eligibility
- Status
- COMPLETED
- Sex
- All
- Target Recruitment
- 175
- Parents/caregivers of infants who have spent one week or longer in the NICU at Christiana Hospital or Thomas Jefferson University Hospital.
- Parents / caregivers of infants who have spent less than one week in the NICU at Christiana Hospital or Thomas Jefferson University Hospital.
Study & Design
- Study Type
- OBSERVATIONAL
- Study Design
- Not specified
- Primary Outcome Measures
Name Time Method Amount of information that parents / caregivers are able to retain Within one week after the infant is discharged from the NICU
- Secondary Outcome Measures
Name Time Method
Trial Locations
- Locations (2)
Thomas Jefferson University Hospital
🇺🇸Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States
Christiana Hospital
🇺🇸Newark, Delaware, United States