Caregiver dissatisfaction with their child's participation in home activities after pediatric critical illness.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Pediatric critical care is often accompanied by a variety of functional impairments. Preliminary evidence suggests children's participation in home activities has a slow trajectory post-pediatric intensive care unit (PICU) discharge, however, additional and more granular knowledge on specific problematic activities is needed to inform patient-centric rehabilitative care. The objectives of this study are to identify common home activities in which caregivers' report dissatisfaction and to determine predictors of caregivers' dissatisfaction with their child's participation in home activities post-PICU discharge.

Methods

Secondary analyses of data from a prospective cohort study, the Wee-Cover study, using a subsample of caregivers (N = 170) of children 1-17 years, a

SUBMITTER: Jarvis JM 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC7466418 | biostudies-literature | 2020 Sep

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature