Telephone Follow-up From an Intensive Care Nursery

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

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.

Study Overview

• Status: Completed
• Conditions: Information Retention

• Study Type: Observational
• Enrollment (Actual): 175

Contacts and Locations

Study Locations

• United States
  • Delaware
    • Newark, Delaware, United States, 19711
      • Christiana Hospital
  • Pennsylvania
    • Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States, 19107
      • Thomas Jefferson University Hospital

Participation Criteria

Eligibility Criteria

• Ages Eligible for Study: Child; Adult; Older Adult
• Accepts Healthy Volunteers: Yes
• Genders Eligible for Study: All

• Sampling Method: Non-Probability Sample

Study Population

Parents/caregivers of infants who are hospitalized in the NICU

Description

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.

Study Plan

How is the study designed?

Number of groups / cohorts

1

Cohorts and Interventions

Group / Cohort
1; Parents / caregivers of any infant who has a length of stay of at least 1 week in the NICU at Christiana Hospital or Thomas Jefferson University Hospital.

What is the study measuring?

Primary Outcome Measures

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

Collaborators and Investigators

• Sponsor: Christiana Care Health Services
• Collaborators: Thomas Jefferson University
• Investigators: Principal Investigator: Constance Andrejko, DO, Christiana Hospital and Thomas Jefferson University Hospital

Study record dates

Study Major Dates

• Study Start: November 1, 2007
• Primary Completion (Actual): December 1, 2008
• Study Completion (Actual): December 1, 2008

Study Registration Dates

• First Submitted: January 17, 2008
• First Submitted That Met QC Criteria: January 29, 2008
• First Posted (Estimate): January 30, 2008

Study Record Updates

• Last Update Posted (Actual): May 10, 2017
• Last Update Submitted That Met QC Criteria: May 9, 2017
• Last Verified: May 1, 2017

More Information

Terms related to this study

• Keywords: caregivers; NICU; discharge instructions
• Other Study ID Numbers: 27164