Trial reportPediatrics2020
Telehealth Home Monitoring and Postcardiac Surgery for Congenital Heart Disease.
Trial report in Pediatrics, 2020. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 19 papers, 3 of them syntheses that pooled it.
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19 citing papers in PubMed, 3 syntheses or guidelines pooled it, 40 citations in OpenAlex.
- Understanding the effectiveness and design of parent-oriented mobile health interventions: a systematic review and narrative synthesis.BMC pediatrics · 2025Pooled it
- Systematic Review of Instruments Assessing Psychosocial Adaptation and Outcomes Among Families of Children With Congenital Heart Disease.Journal of pediatric psychology · 2023Pooled it
- A systematic review examining the clinical and health-care outcomes for congenital heart disease patients using home monitoring programmes.Journal of telemedicine and telecare · 2023Pooled it
- Perceived family-centered care and post-traumatic stress in parents of infants cared for in the paediatric cardiac intensive care unit.Nursing in critical care · 2024Trial
- Parental Post-traumatic Stress and Healthcare Use in Infants with Complex Cardiac Defects.The Journal of pediatrics · 2021Trial
- mHealth Technologies for the Care of Children With Congenital Heart Disease: Scoping Review.JMIR mHealth and uHealth · 2026Article
- The Relationship Between Digital Game Addiction, Computational Thinking Skills, and Well-Being of Middle School Children With and Without Congenital Heart Disease.Children (Basel, Switzerland) · 2026Article
- An individualised mobile app was beneficial for the mothers of infants with severe congenital heart defects.Acta paediatrica (Oslo, Norway : 1992) · 2025Article
- Interactive Telehealth Solutions for Patients With Congenital Heart Disease: A Systematic Review.CJC pediatric and congenital heart disease · 2025Review
- Nurse-guided Mobile Health Care Program to Reduce Emotional Distress Experienced by Parents of Infants Prenatally Diagnosed with Critical Congenital Heart Disease: A Pilot Study.Progress in pediatric cardiology · 2024Article
- An mHealth, patient engagement approach to understand and address parents' mental health and caregiving needs after prenatal diagnosis of critical congenital heart disease.PEC innovation · 2023Article
- [Pediatric telecardiology experience in the COVID-19 pandemic context].Archivos de cardiologia de Mexico · 2023Article
- E-Health: A Game Changer in Fetal and Neonatal Cardiology?Journal of clinical medicine · 2023Review
- Acceptability and Initial Adoption of the Heart Observation App for Infants With Congenital Heart Disease: Qualitative Study.JMIR formative research · 2023Article
- Feasibility and Acceptability of a mHealth Self-Management Intervention for Pediatric Transplant Families.Western journal of nursing research · 2022Article
- Pediatric Telemedicine: Lessons Learned During the Coronavirus Disease 2019 Pandemic and Opportunities for Growth.Advances in pediatrics · 2022Review
- Parental post-traumatic stress, overprotective parenting, and emotional and behavioural problems for children with critical congenital heart disease.Cardiology in the young · 2022Article
- New insights on growth trajectory in infants with complex congenital heart disease.Journal of pediatric nursingArticle
- Predictors of Post-traumatic stress symptomology in parents of infants with Congenital Heart Disease post-surgery and after four months.Journal of pediatric nursingArticle
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10 authors at 6 institutions in 2 countries.
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Abstract
objectivesTo test the effect of a 4-month telehealth home monitoring program (REACH), layered on usual care, on postdischarge outcomes in parents of infants recovering from cardiac surgery and their infants.
methodsRandomized trial of infants discharged from the hospital after cardiac surgery for congenital heart disease. Consecutive infants with complex congenital heart disease undergoing cardiac surgery within 21 days of life were enrolled at 3 university-affiliated pediatric cardiac centers.
resultsFrom 2012 to 2016, 219 parent-infant dyads were enrolled; 109 were randomly assigned to the intervention group and 110 to the control group. At 4 months postdischarge, parenting stress was not significantly different between groups (total Parenting Stress Index in the intervention group was 220 and in the control group was 215;
conclusionsWhen added to usual care, the REACH intervention was not associated with an improvement in parent or infant outcomes. Four months after neonatal heart surgery, ∼20% of parents demonstrate PTSD symptoms. Suboptimal infant growth and hospital readmissions were common.
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