Parental Mental Health Care After Their Child's Pediatric Intensive Care Hospitalization.

ABSTRACT:

Objectives

Post-traumatic stress disorder, depression, and anxiety have all been found in parents of PICU survivors. How these research findings translate to actual use of mental health services by parents remains unknown.

Design

Retrospective observational cohort study.

Setting

Insurance claims data from 2006 to 2013 obtained from the IBM MarketScan Commercial Database.

Patients

Parents of PICU survivors.

Interventions

We examined rates of: 1) mental health diagnoses, 2) outpatient mental health visits, and 3) prescriptions for antidepressants and anxiolytics among parents, 6 months before and 6 months after their child's PICU admission, using each parent as their own control.

Measurements and main results

Of the 95,070 parents identified, 9.5% r

SUBMITTER: Logan GE 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC7609586 | biostudies-literature | 2020 Nov

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature