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

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.

Study Overview

• Status: Completed
• Conditions: Intensive Care Unit Syndrome
• Intervention / Treatment: Other: Questionnaire

• Study Type: Observational
• Enrollment (Actual): 47

Contacts and Locations

Study Locations

• France
  • Bron, France, 69677
    • Pediatric intensive care unit of Women-Mother-Children Hospital

Participation Criteria

Eligibility Criteria

• Ages Eligible for Study: Child; Adult; Older Adult
• Accepts Healthy Volunteers: No
• Genders Eligible for Study: All

• Sampling Method: Non-Probability Sample

Study Population

Parent (mother or /and father) of a recovered child in the PICU for at least 3 days, for a first stay, without limit of age, disease or admission mode.

Description

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.

Study Plan

How is the study designed?

Design Details

• Observational Models: Other
• Time Perspectives: Prospective

What is the study measuring?

Primary Outcome Measures

Outcome Measure	Measure Description	Time Frame
Analyse qualitatively the parents'experience during the PICU stay of their child	Analysis of french written answers on a feedback form of about 10 pages (free written answers or Likert scale)	1 month
Assessment of the impact on the family of this PICU stay of their child	Analysis of french written answers on a feedback form of about 10 pages (free written answers or Likert scale)	1 month

Collaborators and Investigators

• Sponsor: Hospices Civils de Lyon

Study record dates

Study Major Dates

• Study Start (Actual): March 4, 2019
• Primary Completion (Actual): June 21, 2019
• Study Completion (Actual): June 21, 2019

Study Registration Dates

• First Submitted: January 25, 2019
• First Submitted That Met QC Criteria: February 1, 2019
• First Posted (Actual): February 4, 2019

Study Record Updates

• Last Update Posted (Actual): September 6, 2019
• Last Update Submitted That Met QC Criteria: September 4, 2019
• Last Verified: September 1, 2019

More Information

Terms related to this study

• Other Study ID Numbers: 69HCL18_0700

Plan for Individual participant data (IPD)

• Plan to Share Individual Participant Data (IPD)?: No

Drug and device information, study documents

• Studies a U.S. FDA-regulated drug product: No
• Studies a U.S. FDA-regulated device product: No