Journal article
Exploring Factors Affecting Parental Psychological Vulnerability During Their Child's PICU Admission: A Prospective Pilot Cohort Study
Journal of pediatric health care, Vol.38(3), pp.323-336
01/22/2024
DOI: 10.1016/j.pedhc.2023.10.011
PMID: 38260924
Abstract
Introduction
Parental psychological responses during their child's pediatric intensive care unit (PICU) admission are often overlooked. This study aimed to identify pre-existing and peri-traumatic factors explaining parental stress and anxiety during their child's PICU admission and one-month follow-up.
Method
A prospective pilot study included 60 PICU parents. Parental Stressors Scale and State-trait Anxiety Inventory measured stress and anxiety during PICU admission, and the State-trait Anxiety Inventory and Perceived Stress Scale at a one-month follow-up.
Results
During PICU admission, parental stress correlated with age, race, and adverse childhood experiences (ACEs), anxiety was linked to income. At one-month follow-up, anxiety related to child's health worries, perceived stress was linked to parental ACEs and education. Parental ACEs predicted perceived stress (b = 0.83, p = .028). Children's diagnoses explained anxiety, particularly respiratory and cardiac diagnoses (b = −13.44, p = .023; −10.03, p = .045).
Discussion
Identifying factors helps teams understand parental vulnerability and provide appropriate support.
Details
- Title: Subtitle
- Exploring Factors Affecting Parental Psychological Vulnerability During Their Child's PICU Admission: A Prospective Pilot Cohort Study
- Creators
- Zainab AlzawadJesse M. WeissJihye LeeYelena PerkhounkovaMaria HeinAnn Marie McCarthy
- Resource Type
- Journal article
- Publication Details
- Journal of pediatric health care, Vol.38(3), pp.323-336
- DOI
- 10.1016/j.pedhc.2023.10.011
- PMID
- 38260924
- ISSN
- 0891-5245
- eISSN
- 1532-656X
- Language
- English
- Electronic publication date
- 01/22/2024
- Academic Unit
- Nursing; Obstetrics and Gynecology
- Record Identifier
- 9984548851902771
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