Telephone Follow-up From an Intensive Care Nursery

Telephone Follow-up From an Intensive Care Nursery: What do Parents Actually Remember?

Status

Completed

Phases

Unknown

Study type

Observational

Source

ClinicalTrials.gov

Registry ID

NCT00604240

Enrollment

175

Registered

2008-01-30

Start date

2007-11-30

Completion date

2008-12-31

Last updated

2017-05-10

For informational purposes only — not medical advice. Sourced from public registries and may not reflect the latest updates. Terms

Conditions

Information Retention

Keywords

NICU, caregivers, discharge instructions

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.

Interventions

None listed

Study design

Observational model

COHORT

Time perspective

PROSPECTIVE

Eligibility

Sex/Gender

ALL

Healthy volunteers

Yes

Inclusion criteria

* Parents/caregivers of infants who have spent one week or longer in the NICU at Christiana Hospital or Thomas Jefferson University Hospital.

Exclusion criteria

* Parents / caregivers of infants who have spent less than one week in the NICU at Christiana Hospital or Thomas Jefferson University Hospital.

Design outcomes

Primary

Measure	Time frame
Amount of information that parents / caregivers are able to retain	Within one week after the infant is discharged from the NICU

Countries

United States

Outcome results