Challenges of Families of Patients Hospitalized in the PICU: A Preplanned Secondary Analysis From the Navigate Dataset.

ABSTRACT:

Objectives

To describe challenges experienced by parents of children hospitalized in the PICU during PICU admission as reported by family navigators.

Design

A preplanned secondary analysis of open-response data coded via inductive qualitative approach from the Navigate randomized controlled trial (RCT) dataset (ID NCT02333396).

Setting

Two university-affiliated PICUs in the Midwestern United States as part of an RCT.

Patients

Two hundred twenty-four parents of 190 PICU patients.

Interventions

In 2015-2017, trained family navigators assessed and addressed parent needs, offered weekly family meetings, and provided post-PICU discharge parent check-ins as part of a study investigating the effectiveness of a communication support intervention ("PICU Supports"

SUBMITTER: Tager JB 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC10840810 | biostudies-literature | 2024 Feb

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature