Associations of Participation-Focused Strategies and Rehabilitation Service Use With Caregiver Stress After Pediatric Critical Illness.

ABSTRACT:

Objective(s)

Determine the associations between having participation-focused strategies and receiving rehabilitation services in the pediatric intensive care unit (PICU) with caregiver stress over 6 months post-PICU discharge.

Design

Substudy of a data from Wee-Cover, a prospective cohort study.

Setting

Two PICU sites.

Participants

Caregivers (N=168) of children 1-17 years old admitted into a PICU for ≥48 hours.

Main outcome measures

Data were collected from caregivers at enrollment and 3 and 6 months post-PICU discharge. Caregiver stress was assessed using the Pediatric Inventory for Parents. Having strategies to support their child's participation in home-based activities was assessed using the Participation and Environment Measure (PEM). In PEM, careg

SUBMITTER: Jarvis JM 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC6435394 | biostudies-literature | 2019 Apr

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature