Predicting Parental Post-Traumatic Stress Symptoms Following their Child's Stay in a Pediatric Intensive Care Unit, Prior to Discharge.

Develop an inpatient predictive model of parental post-traumatic stress (PTS) following their child's care in the Pediatric Intensive Care Unit (PICU). Prospective observational cohort. Two tertiary care children's hospitals with mixed medical/surgical/cardiac PICUs.

Pediatric Critical Care-Associated Parental Traumatic Stress: Beyond the First Year.

Objectives: Perform a longitudinal analysis of parental traumatic stress up to 30 months after PICU discharge.

Design: Prospective observational cohort study.

Setting: Two tertiary care children's hospitals with mixed medical/surgical/cardiac PICUs.

Acute Stress in Parents of Patients Admitted to the Pediatric Intensive Care Unit: A Two-Center Cross-Sectional Observational Study.

Objective: To examine medical and psychosocial risk factors associated with the development of acute stress in parents of patients unexpectedly admitted to the PICU.

Design: Cross-sectional observational study.

Setting: Two tertiary care children's hospitals with mixed medical/surgical/cardiac PICU.

Evaluating Pediatric Families' Understanding of and Reactions to COVID-19 Visitor Restrictions.

The COVID-19 pandemic led to changes in hospital visitor policies and little is known about the impact on patients and their families. This study evaluated families' understanding of and reactions to COVID-19-related visitor restriction policy at an academic children's hospital. We conducted a cross-sectional study with families of patients admitted to the pediatric ICU and general pediatric wards from September 2020 to November 2020.

Family Outcomes After the Pediatric Intensive Care Unit: A Scoping Review.

Background: Intensivists are increasingly attuned to the postdischarge outcomes experienced by families because patient recovery and family outcomes are interdependent after childhood critical illness. In this scoping review of international contemporary literature, we describe the evidence of family effects and functioning postpediatric intensive care unit (PICU) as well as outcome measures used to identify strengths and weaknesses in the literature.

Methods: We reviewed all articles published between 1970 and 2017 in PubMed, Embase, PsycINFO, Cumulative Index of Nursing and Allied Health Literature (CINAHL), or the Cochrane Controlled Trials Registry.