Impact of Postoperative Medical Equipment Removal/insertion on Parental Anxiety in Pediatric Cardiac Intensive Care Unit

Claude Bernard University

Status: Completed

Conditions: Parents; Anxiety Postoperative

Study type: Observational

Funder types: Other

Identifiers

NCT05892874

PARANX

Details and patient eligibility

About

A lot of observationnal studies describe parental stressors in PICU/PCICU, but none studied, prospectively, the links between medical equipment removal/insertion and anxiety modulation.

The primary objective is to identify the impact of medical equipment removal/insertion on the STAI-Y score (anxiety) The secondary objective is to identify the parental anxiety determinant (via VAS).

Full description

A lot of observationnal studies describe parental stressors in Paediatric Intensive care Unit, but none studied, prospectively, the links between medical equipment removal or insertion and anxiety modulation.

The primary objective is to identify the impact of medical equipment removal or insertion on the STAI-Y score (anxiety) The secondary objective is to identify the parental anxiety determinant (via Visual Analog Stress Scale.

Parents will fill out questionnaire upon arrival in the Intensive care unit when reaching the bedside of their hospitalized child right after the elective cardiac surgery. Then after each equipment removal or insertion they will be asked to fill out again the same questionaire.

Enrollment: 70 patients

Sex: All

Volunteers: No Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion criteria

• parents/legal tutor of minor patient (congenital cardiopathy) with elective hospitalization in PCICU for surgical procedures

Exclusion criteria

• Parents no french speaking
• child hospitalized for Cardiac Catheterization
• child hospitalized for Berlin Heart insertion
• child hospitalized for heart transplantation

Trial design

70 participants in 1 patient group

Parents