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Meaning Making While Your Child is in Intensive Care

NCT05627531 · Status: COMPLETED · Phase: NA · Type: INTERVENTIONAL · Enrollment: 41

Last updated 2025-08-07

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Summary

A quarter of a million children and teenagers are hospitalized annually in Pediatric Intensive Care Units (PICUs) in North America. Having a child hospitalized in a PICU is stressful and affects the mood and coping of their parents. The investigators' prior work has shown how narrative medicine may help. Narrative medicine includes at least one session reading and then having a guided discussion of a poem or short story. The readings are individually selected by the Narrative Medicine Coordinator who also provides a guided writing exercise (in the form of poetry, creative non-fiction, journaling, or fiction). After writing, the parent/guardian had the option to share their writing out loud with the Narrative Medicine Coordinator. At the end of each session, the parent/guardian receives personalized writing prompts they are encouraged to use writing each day. The Investigators want to see how this session helps parents make sense of their time in the PICU and how it may help them cope. The investigators ask participants to fill out some surveys when they enroll and three days after their session.

Conditions

  • Narrative Medicine

Interventions

BEHAVIORAL

Narrative Medicine

Intervention group completes pre- and post-intervention measures, composition book and guided reading, discussion, and writing with narrative medicine coordinator.

Sponsors & Collaborators

  • Akron Children's Hospital

    lead OTHER

Principal Investigators

  • Daniel H Grossoehme, DMin, MS · Rebecca D. Considine Research Institute, Akron Children's Hospital

Study Design

Allocation
NON_RANDOMIZED
Purpose
SUPPORTIVE_CARE
Masking
NONE
Model
PARALLEL

Eligibility

Min Age
18 Years
Sex
ALL
Healthy Volunteers
No

Timeline & Regulatory

Start
2022-11-09
Primary Completion
2024-09-09
Completion
2024-09-09

Countries

  • United States

Study Locations

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