TY  - JOUR
SN  - 1432-1076
SP  - 747
IS  - 5
KW  - Adolescent medicine
KW  -  Critical care
KW  -  Critical illness
KW  -  Intensive care units
KW  -  Intensive care units
KW  -  paediatric
KW  -   Qualitative research
JF  - European Journal of Pediatrics
AV  - public
Y1  - 2018/05/01/
TI  - Eliciting the experiences of the adolescent-parent dyad following critical care admission: a pilot study
PB  - SPRINGER
N1  - Copyright © The Author(s) 2018
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ID  - discovery10060392
N2  - Critically ill adolescents are usually treated on intensive care units optimised for much older adults or younger children. The way they access and experience health services may be very different to most adolescent service users, and existing quality criteria may not apply to them. The objectives of this pilot study were, firstly, to determine whether adolescents and their families were able to articulate their experiences of their critical care admission and secondly, to identify the factors that are important to them during their intensive care unit (ICU) or high dependency unit (HDU) stay. Participants were 14?17 year olds who had previously had an emergency admission to an adult or paediatric ICU/HDU in one of four UK hospitals (two adult, two paediatric) and their parents. Semi-structured interviews were conducted with eight mother-adolescent dyads and one mother. Interviews were transcribed and analysed using framework analysis.

Conclusion: The main reported determinant of high-quality care was the quality of interaction with staff. The significance of these interactions and their environment depended on adolescents? awareness of their surroundings, which was often limited in ICU and changed significantly over the course of their illness. Qualitative interview methodology would be difficult to scale up for this group.
EP  - 752
A1  - Wood, D
A1  - Geoghegan, S
A1  - Ramnarayan, P
A1  - Davis, PJ
A1  - Pappachan, JV
A1  - Goodwin, S
A1  - Wray, J
VL  - 177
UR  - http://doi.org/10.1007/s00431-018-3117-y
ER  -