Predictors of neurocognitive and psychological disorders in children after intensive care admission: A prospective cohort study.

ABSTRACT:

Background and aims

Children admitted in the pediatric intensive care unit (PICU) often deal with long-term morbidities affecting physical, cognitive, emotional, social, and psychiatric symptoms. We aimed to identify the internal and external factors which predict the occurrence of neurocognitive and psychological disorders in survivors at 3 months after PICU discharge.

Methods

We identified 53 critically ill children, ages 4-18 years old, admitted in PICU for more than 24 h, and survived. We evaluated neurocognitive disorder with Pediatric Cerebral Perfomance Category (PCPC) and psychological disorders with Strengths and Difficulties Questionnaire (SDQ) at the time of PICU discharge and repeated in 3 months afterward. We evaluated the internal and external risk factors rela

SUBMITTER: Yuliarto S 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC10268591 | biostudies-literature | 2023 Jun

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature