The Bereaved Parent Needs Assessment: a new instrument to assess the needs of parents whose children died in the pediatric intensive care unit*.

ABSTRACT:

Objectives

To evaluate the reliability and validity of the Bereaved Parent Needs Assessment, a new instrument to measure parents' needs and need fulfillment around the time of their child's death in the pediatric intensive care unit. We hypothesized that need fulfillment would be negatively related to complicated grief and positively related to quality of life during bereavement.

Design

Cross-sectional survey.

Setting

Five U.S. children's hospital pediatric intensive care units.

Subjects

Parents (n = 121) bereaved in a pediatric intensive care unit 6 months earlier.

Interventions

Surveys included the 68-item Bereaved Parent Needs Assessment, the Inventory of Complicated Grief, and the abbreviated version of the World Health Organization Quality of Life q

SUBMITTER: Meert KL 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC3865522 | biostudies-literature | 2012 Nov

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature