The Bereaved Parent Needs Assessment: A new instrument to assess the needs of parents whose children died in the pediatric intensive care unit

Critical Care Medicine

Volumn 40, Issue 11, 2012, Pages 3050-3057

  Meert, Kathleen L ^a   Templin, Thomas N ^b   Michelson, Kelly N ^c   Morrison, Wynne E ^d   Hackbarth, Richard ^e   Custer, Joseph R ^f   Schim, Stephanie M ^b   Briller, Sherylyn H ^b   Thurston, Celia S ^b  

^a CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL OF MICHIGAN   (United States)

^b WAYNE STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c CHILDREN'S MEMORIAL HOSPITAL   (United States)

^d CHILDREN S HOSPITAL OF PHILADELPHIA   (United States)

^e HELEN DEVOS CHILDREN S HOSPITAL   (United States)

^f UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN   (United States)

Author keywords

bereavement; death; grief; intensive care; parents; pediatrics; quality of life

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; BEREAVED PARENT NEEDS ASSESSMENT; BEREAVEMENT; CHILD DEATH; CONTENT VALIDITY; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORRELATION COEFFICIENT; CRITERION RELATED VALIDITY; CRONBACH ALPHA COEFFICIENT; FEMALE; HUMAN; INTENSIVE CARE UNIT; INTERNAL CONSISTENCY; INVENTORY OF COMPLICATED GRIEF; MALE; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; PARENTAL BEHAVIOR; PREDICTIVE VALUE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PSYCHOLOGICAL RATING SCALE; PSYCHOMETRY; QUALITY OF LIFE; QUESTIONNAIRE; SCORING SYSTEM; UNITED STATES; WORLD HEALTH ORGANIZATION QUALITY OF LIFE QUESTIONNAIRE;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; BEREAVEMENT; CHILD; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; DEATH; FEMALE; HUMANS; INFANT; INFANT, NEWBORN; INTENSIVE CARE UNITS, PEDIATRIC; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NEEDS ASSESSMENT; PARENTS; PSYCHOMETRICS; QUESTIONNAIRES;

EID: 84868199628     PISSN: 00903493     EISSN: 15300293     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/CCM.0b013e31825fe164     Document Type: Article

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