Telephone Follow-up From an Intensive Care Nursery

Christiana Care Health Services

Status: Completed

Conditions: Information Retention

Study type: Observational

Funder types: Other

Identifiers

NCT00604240

27164

Details and patient eligibility

About

The first few weeks after leaving the Neonatal Intensive Care Unit (NICU) can be a difficult transition time for caregivers of a previously hospitalized infant. To help ease this stressful period, doctors and nurses give caregivers a large amount of information prior to their infant leaving the NCIU. How much caregivers remember about medications, follow-up appointments, and general well-child care has not been studied. Caregivers who choose to participate will receive a phone call 2-7 days after discharge where they will be asked questions pertaining to the information that was discussed with them at the time of discharge. The purpose of the study is to determine how much information caregivers retain after leaving the NICU.

Enrollment: 175 patients

Sex: All

Volunteers: Accepts Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion criteria

• Parents/caregivers of infants who have spent one week or longer in the NICU at Christiana Hospital or Thomas Jefferson University Hospital.

Exclusion criteria

• Parents / caregivers of infants who have spent less than one week in the NICU at Christiana Hospital or Thomas Jefferson University Hospital.

Trial design

175 participants in 1 patient group

1

Description:

Parents / caregivers of any infant who has a length of stay of at least 1 week in the NICU at Christiana Hospital or Thomas Jefferson University Hospital.