[Hospitalized children's parents' anxiety in critical care units].
Child hospitalization is a potentially stressful process that affects both patients and family members.


OBJECTIVE
Describe the anxiety that the parents of admitted children at a Intensive Care Units, Pediatric (PICU) and/or Neonatal (NICU) during the first week of hospitalization.


METHODS
Observational study descriptive, transversal conducted at the Gregorio Marañón Hospital, in PICU and NICU. The inclusion criteria were: patients who didn't exceed the week admitted but they were at hospital more than one day, patients whose therapeutic effort wasn't limited and spanish-speaker parents. The sample size was 60 parents. We designed a questionnaire to measure sociodemographic variables and others related with the social support. The resulting variable, anxiety like State Anxiety (SA) and Trait Anxiety (TA) were determined by the STAI inventory.


RESULTS
All the parents showed anxiety the average females SA was 44.59 (+/- 8.02) while the average of men was 44.32 (+/- 6.69). The results show a TA average of 34.73 (+/- 4.09) in woman and 34.95 (+/- 4.93) in men. 83% of the parents of the sample participated in their child caring, having this variable relationship with level of SA (p<0.05). Moreover 98% of parents understood the information given and were satisfied with it.


CONCLUSIONS
All the parents presented anxiety, both SA and TA. They felt informed and supported by nurse. All these actions are directed towards an integral attention taking into account the family as the unit.
Hospital Universitario Gregorio Marañón, Madrid. lauracolladosg@gmail.com
Laura
L
Collados Gómez
Teresa Omayra
TO
Jara Casas
Marta
M
Sánchez-Alarcos de la Serna
Elena
E
Calderari Fernández
Anileidys
A
Rodríguez Quesada
D000328:Adult; D001007:Anxiety / Q000453:epidemiology*; D002648:Child; D002673:Child, Hospitalized; D003422:Critical Care; D003430:Cross-Sectional Studies; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D007362:Intensive Care Units; D008297:Male; D010290:Parents / Q000523:psychology*