Parents' Experience of Their Children Stay in a Pediatric Intensive Care Unit.

Parents' Experience of Their Children Stay in a Pediatric Intensive Care Unit.

Children recovered in pediatric intensive care unit (PICU) suffer from severe conditions, sometimes life-threatening. Thus, priority is given to urgent somatic care, children medicalization is strong, invasive technics have to be used, and medical monitoring is close.

A stay in PICU often leaves a painful memory to the child and family, and can lead to psychological morbidity such as post-traumatic stress disease.

This study aims to assess parents' experience during their child hospitalization in PICU, and the impact of this stay on the entire family in the following month.

Inclusion Criteria:

• Parent (mother or /and father) of a recovered child in PICU.
• No limit of age, disease or admission mode.
• First stay in PICU, for at least a 3 days stay.
• Parents having been informed and having accepted the participation in the study.

Exclusion Criteria:

• Death of the child during the stay in PICU or during the month following the discharge from PICU
• Non-fluent french speakers/readers.