Intensive Care Unit Syndrome
Conditions
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.
Interventions
OTHERQuestionnaire
Parents will be recruited in a Pediatric Resuscitation Department of the Mother and Child Hospital for 3 months. The doctor taking care of a child and his parents meeting the eligibility criteria will distribute, during the stay, a questionnaire accompanied by a pre-stamped envelope to the two parents not opposing the study. A phone call and / or an email reminder by the intern in the month of the exit will invite each parent to return the questionnaire. The completed questionnaire will be mailed back by the parents using the pre-stamped envelope.
Sponsors
Hospices Civils de Lyon
Study design
Observational model
OTHER
Time perspective
PROSPECTIVE
Eligibility
Sex/Gender
ALL
Healthy volunteers
No
Inclusion criteria
* 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.
Exclusion criteria
* Death of the child during the stay in PICU or during the month following the discharge from PICU * Non-fluent french speakers/readers.
Design outcomes
Primary
| Measure | Time frame | Description |
|---|---|---|
| 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) |
| 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) |
Countries
France
Outcome results
None listed