A supported psychoeducational intervention to improve family mental health following discharge from paediatric intensive care: feasibility and pilot randomised controlled trial.

ABSTRACT:

Objective

To assess feasibility and pilot a supported psychoeducational tool to improve parent and child mental health following discharge from a paediatric intensive care unit (PICU), in preparation for a large randomised controlled trial (RCT).

Design

Feasibility assessment and single-centre, parallel group, pilot RCT. A concealed computer generated list was used to randomise participants, with an allocation of 2:1 in favour of the intervention.

Setting

A PICU in an acute care hospital in London, UK.

Participants

31 parents of children aged 4-16 years-old admitted to PICU.

Intervention

Parents received a psychoeducational tool supported by a telephone call. The psychoeducational tool outlined the possible psychological reactions in children and parents

SUBMITTER: Als LC 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC4710808 | biostudies-literature | 2015 Dec

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature