Caregiver Strategy Use to Promote Children's Home Participation After Pediatric Critical Illness.

Objectives: The primary objectives are to assess the most common type of caregiver strategy (remedial vs compensatory) reported for supporting their child's home participation after critical illness and identify themes in compensatory strategies described, with a secondary objective to describe themes in strategy use as reported by caregivers of children who did and did not receive pediatric intensive care unit (PICU) rehabilitation services.

Design: Qualitative substudy of the Wee-Cover prospective cohort study.

Setting: Two PICU sites.