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Effect of Pediatric Intensive Care Unit Diaries on PICS-p

NCT06310109 · Status: RECRUITING · Phase: NA · Type: INTERVENTIONAL · Enrollment: 110

Last updated 2024-08-09

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Summary

When children become very sick and need to stay in a Pediatric Intensive Care Unit (PICU), it can have a big impact on their recovery and their family's well-being. Sometimes kids and their families feel worried or sad even after they leave the hospital. This can have an impact on the quality of their life after hospital discharge.

To help understand and improve these experiences, the investigators want to study the "PICU diaries." These are journals that families and hospital staff can write in during the child's time in the hospital. Parents, other visitors and healthcare professionals can share thoughts, experiences, and even drawings or photos related to the child's admission. The content is a narrative account of what happens during the child's hospital stay, for the family to take home at PICU discharge.

The investigators believe that writing in these diaries might help children and their families feel better after leaving the hospital. It might help kids feel less worried or sad, and it might also help their parents or caregivers feel better too.

The study will include children who have been in the PICU and their families. Some families will receive these special diaries to use during their time in the hospital, while others won't. We'll then see how everyone feels after they leave the hospital and compare the two groups to see if the diaries make a difference.

The investigators hope that by understanding how these diaries can help, healthcare professionals can make hospital experiences better for everyone involved.

Conditions

  • Post Intensive Care Syndrome
  • Narrative Medicine
  • Post Traumatic Stress Disorder
  • Anxiety
  • Depression

Interventions

OTHER

PICU diary

.The PICU diary is a notebook with lined sheets located at the patient's bedside. In this diary parents, other caregivers, family members, healthcare professionals or other visitors can write thoughts, report events related to the child/adolescent's admission, attach drawings or photographs for the patient or related to the PICU admission.

Sponsors & Collaborators

  • Ministry of Health, Italy

    collaborator OTHER_GOV

  • Bambino Gesù Children's Hospital IRCCS

    lead OTHER

Principal Investigators

  • Orsola Gawronski, PhD · Bambino Gesù Children's Hospital IRCCS

Study Design

Allocation
RANDOMIZED
Purpose
PREVENTION
Masking
NONE
Model
PARALLEL

Eligibility

Max Age
19 Years
Sex
ALL
Healthy Volunteers
No

Timeline & Regulatory

Start
2021-07-14
Primary Completion
2024-10-31
Completion
2024-10-31

Countries

  • Italy

Study Locations

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