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

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.

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Key information

Conditions

Intensive Care Unit Syndrome

Sex eligibility

All sexes

Study type

Observational

Primary location

Pediatric intensive care unit of Women-Mother-Children Hospital

Bron, 69677, France

Who can participate

Healthy volunteers accepted: No

Only the study team can determine whether someone qualifies for participation.

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.

Treatment and study plan

Questionnaire

Other

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.

Primary outcomes

Analyse qualitatively the parents'experience during the PICU stay of their child

Time frame: 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

Time frame: 1 month

Analysis of french written answers on a feedback form of about 10 pages (free written answers or Likert scale)

Sponsors and collaborators

Lead sponsor

Hospices Civils de Lyon

Other

Registry information

Acronym: VECUREA

Important dates

Study start: 2019
Primary completion: 2019
Study completion: 2019
First posted: Feb 4, 2019
Registry last updated: Sep 6, 2019

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This listing is for discovery and informational purposes only. It is not medical advice, does not guarantee that a study is recruiting, and does not determine eligibility. Contact the study team and a qualified healthcare professional when considering participation.

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