NCT03828552

Parents' Experience of Their Children Stay in a Pediatric Intensive Care Unit.

• Status: Completed
• Phase: —
• Study type: Observational
• Enrollment: 47 (actual)
• Sponsor: Hospices Civils de Lyon · Academic / Other
• Sex: All
• Age: —
• Healthy volunteers: Not accepted

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.

Conditions

• Intensive Care Unit Syndrome

Interventions

Type	Name	Description
OTHER	Questionnaire	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.

Timeline

• Start date: 2019-03-04
• Primary completion: 2019-06-21
• Completion: 2019-06-21
• First posted: 2019-02-04
• Last updated: 2019-09-06

Locations

1 site across 1 country: France