TY - JOUR
T1 - Examining the needs of bereaved parents in the pediatric intensive care unit
T2 - A qualitative study
AU - Meert, Kathleen L.
AU - Briller, Sherylyn H.
AU - Schim, Stephanie Myers
AU - Thurston, Celia
AU - Kabel, Allison
N1 - Funding Information:
Received 12 February 2008; accepted 13 August 2008. This research was funded by the Children’s Research Center of Michigan. Address correspondence to Kathleen L. Meert, MD, Critical Care Medicine, Children’s Hospital of Michigan, 3901 Beaubien St., Detroit, MI 48201. E-mail: krmeert@ med.wayne.edu
PY - 2009/9
Y1 - 2009/9
N2 - The pediatric intensive care unit (PICU) is a high-tech setting aimed at restoring health to critically ill children. When childhood death occurs in the PICU, it constitutes a special context for parent bereavement. The purpose of this interdisciplinary qualitative research was to gain a deeper understanding of parents' needs around the time of their child's death in the PICU. Through interviews and focus groups with bereaved parents and hospital chaplains, categories of parents' needs emerged. Deeper understanding of parents' needs will allow health professionals to better support parents during bereavement as well as to provide more customized care.
AB - The pediatric intensive care unit (PICU) is a high-tech setting aimed at restoring health to critically ill children. When childhood death occurs in the PICU, it constitutes a special context for parent bereavement. The purpose of this interdisciplinary qualitative research was to gain a deeper understanding of parents' needs around the time of their child's death in the PICU. Through interviews and focus groups with bereaved parents and hospital chaplains, categories of parents' needs emerged. Deeper understanding of parents' needs will allow health professionals to better support parents during bereavement as well as to provide more customized care.
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U2 - 10.1080/07481180903070434
DO - 10.1080/07481180903070434
M3 - Article
C2 - 19697483
AN - SCOPUS:70149098053
VL - 33
SP - 712
EP - 740
JO - Death Studies
JF - Death Studies
SN - 0748-1187
IS - 8
ER -