Observational studyPediatric critical care medicine : a journal of the Society of Critical Care Medicine and the World Federation of Pediatric Intensive and Critical Care Societies2020
Parental Mental Health Care After Their Child's Pediatric Intensive Care Hospitalization.
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- The health and well-being of children with medical complexity and their parents' when admitted to inpatient care units: A scoping review.Journal of child health care : for professionals working with children in the hospital and community · 2026Article
- [Challenge healthcare system: spotlight on PICS].Medizinische Klinik, Intensivmedizin und Notfallmedizin · 2025Review
- Discharge Screening Predicts Persistent Parental Psychological Distress After Pediatric Critical Illness.Children (Basel, Switzerland) · 2025Article
- Parental resilience and child quality of life following paediatric hospitalisation: a prospective cohort study.BMJ paediatrics open · 2025Article
- The effect of disease uncertainty on stress perception among parents of critically ill children in the PICU:the mediating effect of coping styles.BMC psychology · 2025Article
- Physical, Cognitive, Emotional, and Social Health Outcomes of Parents in the First Six Months after Childhood Critical Illness: A Prospective Single Centre Study.Children (Basel, Switzerland) · 2024Article
- Elevated risk for psychiatric outcomes in pediatric patients with Multisystem Inflammatory Syndrome (MIS-C): A review of neuroinflammatory and psychosocial stressors.Brain, behavior, & immunity - health · 2024Review
- Developmental care pathway for hospitalised infants with CHD: on behalf of the Cardiac Newborn Neuroprotective Network, a Special Interest Group of the Cardiac Neurodevelopmental Outcome Collaborative.Cardiology in the young · 2023Article
- Supporting Disclosure of Unmet Mental Health Needs among Parents of Critically Ill Infants.The Journal of pediatrics · 2023Article
- Structured Multidisciplinary Follow-Up After Pediatric Intensive Care: A Model for Continuous Data-Driven Health Care Innovation.Pediatric critical care medicine : a journal of the Society of Critical Care Medicine and the World Federation of Pediatric Intensive and Critical Care Societies · 2023Observational
- Promoting Functional Recovery in Critically Ill Children.Pediatric clinics of North America · 2023Review
- Factors of well-being of youth with complex medical conditions from the experience of hospitalization and convalescence: A pilot study.PloS one · 2023Observational
- Stressful Experiences of Parents in the Paediatric Intensive Care Unit: Searching for the Most Intensive PICU Stressors.International journal of environmental research and public health · 2022Article
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- Post-Intensive Care Syndrome in a Cohort of School-Aged Children and Adolescent ICU Survivors: The Importance of Follow-up in the Acute Recovery Phase.Journal of pediatric intensive care · 2022Article
- Health care utilization and expenditures of parents of children with and without hemophilia A.Journal of managed care & specialty pharmacy · 2022Article
- Asthma in paediatric intensive care in England residents: observational study.Scientific reports · 2022Observational
- The parental psychological distress caused by separation from their critically ill child during the COVID-19 pandemic: A tale of two cities.Frontiers in pediatrics · 2022Article
- Association Between Children With Life-Threatening Conditions and Their Parents' and Siblings' Mental and Physical Health.JAMA network open · 2021Article
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Abstract
objectivesPost-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.
designRetrospective observational cohort study.
settingInsurance claims data from 2006 to 2013 obtained from the IBM MarketScan Commercial Database. PATIENTS: Parents of PICU survivors.
interventionsWe 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
resultsOf the 95,070 parents identified, 9.5% received a new mental health diagnosis in the 6 months after their child's PICU hospitalization, which represented a 110% increase from pre-PICU rates. A smaller proportion of parents were given new prescriptions for antidepressants (3.4%) and anxiolytics (3.9%) in the 6 months after their child's PICU hospitalization. Mothers were twice as likely to receive a new mental health diagnosis and be taking a new medication than fathers in the post-PICU period. The parental diagnosis of acute stress disorder or post-traumatic stress disorder increased by 87% from the pre-PICU to the post-PICU period.
conclusionsAfter their child's PICU hospitalization, the proportion of parents with a new mental health diagnosis nearly doubled. Mothers were at nearly twice the risk of receiving a new mental health diagnosis and receiving a new mental health medication compared with fathers. The proportion of parents receiving mental healthcare is much lower than the proportion reporting mental health symptoms in long-term outcomes studies. Whether this indicates a gap in healthcare delivery for parents with mental health symptoms remains unknown.
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