NCT00912626

Family Functioning and Child Behavior When a Sibling is Critically Ill

• Status: Completed
• Phase: N/A
• Study type: Interventional
• Enrollment: 90 (actual)
• Sponsor: Children's Hospital of Philadelphia · Academic / Other
• Sex: All
• Age: 18 Years
• Healthy volunteers: Not accepted

Summary

The goal of this study is to determine if there is a correlation between an efficacious family environment and sibling behavior in families with children who are critically ill.

Detailed description

Families of critically ill children can face many emotional challenges during the course of a child's illness. While some research has looked at the impact on parents, there has been little focused on siblings. We want to better understand how social support may have a protective effect on siblings' quality of life. The goal of this study is to determine if there is a correlation between an efficacious family environment and sibling behavior in families with children who are critically ill. Our hypothesis is that a cohesive, emotionally rich and open family environment provides social support so that siblings can explore and express the difficult emotions that accompany illness, and is therefore a protective factor for a sibling's behavior.

Conditions

• Child Behavior

Interventions

Type	Name	Description
BEHAVIORAL	One week follow up assessment results	FU-1 feedback group will receive child behavior assessment results and interpretation,and a brief intervention to encourage support options.

Timeline

• Start date: 2009-06-01
• Primary completion: 2014-06-01
• Completion: 2014-06-01
• First posted: 2009-06-03
• Last updated: 2015-03-12

Locations

1 site across 1 country: United States