Caretti, V.

Giannone, F.

Lucarelli, L.

Schimmenti, A.

Colville, G

Cream, P

Kerry, S

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Full Terms & Conditions of access and use can be found athttp://tandfonline.com/action/journalInformation?journalCode=zept20European Journal of PsychotraumatologyISSN: 2000-8198 (Print) 2000-8066 (Online) Journal homepage: http://tandfonline.com/loi/zept202. SYMPOSIATo cite this article: (2011) 2. SYMPOSIA, European Journal of Psychotraumatology, 2:1, 7232,DOI: 10.3402/ejpt.v2i0.7232To link to this article:  https://doi.org/10.3402/ejpt.v2i0.7232© 2011 Joanne Mouthaan et al.Published online: 09 May 2011.Submit your article to this journal Article views: 40This is an Open Access publication distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial 3.0 Unported License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/3.0/), permitting all non-commercial use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work isproperly cited.Citation: European Journal of Psychotraumatology Supplement 1, 2011. DOI: 10.3402/ejpt.v2i0.72324Colville Gillian; Cream, P.; Kerry, S.; St George’s Hospital/St George’s University of LondonEvaluation of a Paediatric Intensive Care Follow-Up Clinic: It’s Good to Talk!Objective: To establish the impact of a Paediatric Intensive Care Unit (PICU) follow-up clinic on parents’ distress.Method: In a prospective randomised controlled trial, parents of 133 children admitted to an eight-bed PICU for12 hours were randomly allocated to intervention (follow-up clinic appointment offered 2 months after discharge)or control (no appointment). Parent stress was assessed at discharge using the Parental Stressor Scale: PICU.Posttraumatic stress, anxiety and depression were assessed 5 months later by postal questionnaire. Results:Outcome data were obtained for 105 parents. Whole group analyses revealed no significant differences inpsychological outcome between control and intervention groups. However, there was an intervention effect for asub-group (n55) who had reported baseline stress scores above median. Within this sub-group, parents whoreceived the intervention were less likely to report clinically significant levels of posttraumatic stress (25% vs 56%,p.018) or depression (19% vs 52%, p.009) than controls. Discussion: These results do not justify routineprovision of PICU follow-up clinic appointments for all parents. However, for parents who find the admissionparticularly traumatic, distress rates might be reduced by a simple intervention, which was feasible in a clinicalsetting.22 Citation: European Journal of Psychotraumatology Supplement 1, 2011. DOI: 10.3402/ejpt.v2i0.7232

Evaluation of a Paediatric Intensive Care Follow-Up Clinic: It's Good to Talk!

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CARETTI, Vincenzo

GIANNONE, Francesca

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