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Provider’s Perception of Parental Anxiety in the Pediatric Intensive Care Unit

Parents of critically ill children in the Pediatric Intensive Care Unit (PICU) commonly experience new or worsening anxiety, which can lead to long-term sequelae in the form of post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD). To investigate how well the PICU providers recognize and assess parental anxiety, we...

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Autores principales: Aljabari, Salim, Birisci, Esma, Kummerfeld, Faith
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Cureus 2022
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9521509/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/36185923
http://dx.doi.org/10.7759/cureus.28589
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description Parents of critically ill children in the Pediatric Intensive Care Unit (PICU) commonly experience new or worsening anxiety, which can lead to long-term sequelae in the form of post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD). To investigate how well the PICU providers recognize and assess parental anxiety, we assessed the acute and baseline anxiety level of 30 parents in the PICU with the State-Trait Anxiety Inventory (STAI) and compared the results with the PICU physician's and nurses' assessments. All but four parents experienced higher acute anxiety scores compared to baseline, with a 34% increase in the number of parents with moderate and high anxiety scores. All PICU providers performed poorly in recognizing and assessing parental anxiety, with a tendency to underestimate the level of anxiety. Proper screening tools and strategies are essential to recognize and help parents in distress and potentially prevent long-term psychological sequelae.
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spelling pubmed-95215092022-09-30 Provider’s Perception of Parental Anxiety in the Pediatric Intensive Care Unit Aljabari, Salim Birisci, Esma Kummerfeld, Faith Cureus Pediatrics Parents of critically ill children in the Pediatric Intensive Care Unit (PICU) commonly experience new or worsening anxiety, which can lead to long-term sequelae in the form of post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD). To investigate how well the PICU providers recognize and assess parental anxiety, we assessed the acute and baseline anxiety level of 30 parents in the PICU with the State-Trait Anxiety Inventory (STAI) and compared the results with the PICU physician's and nurses' assessments. All but four parents experienced higher acute anxiety scores compared to baseline, with a 34% increase in the number of parents with moderate and high anxiety scores. All PICU providers performed poorly in recognizing and assessing parental anxiety, with a tendency to underestimate the level of anxiety. Proper screening tools and strategies are essential to recognize and help parents in distress and potentially prevent long-term psychological sequelae. Cureus 2022-08-30 /pmc/articles/PMC9521509/ /pubmed/36185923 http://dx.doi.org/10.7759/cureus.28589 Text en Copyright © 2022, Aljabari et al. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/This is an open access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author and source are credited.
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Aljabari, Salim
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Provider’s Perception of Parental Anxiety in the Pediatric Intensive Care Unit
title Provider’s Perception of Parental Anxiety in the Pediatric Intensive Care Unit
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title_fullStr Provider’s Perception of Parental Anxiety in the Pediatric Intensive Care Unit
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title_short Provider’s Perception of Parental Anxiety in the Pediatric Intensive Care Unit
title_sort provider’s perception of parental anxiety in the pediatric intensive care unit
topic Pediatrics
url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9521509/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/36185923
http://dx.doi.org/10.7759/cureus.28589
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