• Pediatr Crit Care Me · Feb 2013

    Children's self-reported quality of life after intensive care treatment.

    • Gillian A Colville and Christine M Pierce.
    • Paediatric Intensive Care Unit, Great Ormond Street Hospital for Children, London, UK. gcolvill@sgul.ac.uk
    • Pediatr Crit Care Me. 2013 Feb 1;14(2):e85-92.

    ObjectivesA number of studies have reported on parental/clinician reports of children's quality of life after intensive care treatment. The aim of this study was to establish children's own views of their outcome. [corrected].DesignProspective cohort study. [corrected].SettingTwenty-one bed PICU in a tertiary Children's Hospital.PatientsNinety-seven children aged over 7 yr, with no preexisting learning difficulties, consecutively admitted to PICU over an 18 month periodInterventionsPatients completed the Pediatric Quality of Life Inventory and a post-traumatic stress screener, at 3 months and again at 1 year (n = 72) after discharge from PICU.Measurements And Main ResultsAt 3 months post-discharge, the mean total Pediatric Quality of Life Inventory score reported by the PICU group was lower than that reported in the literature for a non-clinical community sample (PICU mean = 79.1 vs community mean = 83.9, p = 0.003), but by 1 year, they were comparable (82.2, p = 0.388). The mean physical functioning subscale score remained lower (PICU mean=81.6 vs. community mean=88.5, p = 0.01), but improved significantly from 73.4 at 3 months (p = 0.001).Sub-group analyses revealed that the elective group reported higher emotional functioning than the community sample (91.0, p=0.005 at 3 months and 88.2, p = 0.038 at 1 year vs community mean=78.5), and made significant gains in social functioning between timepoints (79.1 to 91.4, p = 0.015).Finally, although total PedsQL scores at 1 year were not associated with measures of severity of illness during admission, they were significantly negatively associated with concurrent post-traumatic stress symptom scores (r = -0.40, p = 0.001).ConclusionsThe self-report version of the Pediatric Quality of Life Inventory proved to be a feasible and sensitive tool for assessing health related quality of life in this group of PICU survivors.

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