• Journal of critical care · Apr 2015

    Comparative Study

    Satisfaction with care and decision making among parents/caregivers in the pediatric intensive care unit: A comparison between English-speaking whites and Latinos.

    • David Epstein, Jennifer B Unger, Beatriz Ornelas, Jennifer C Chang, Barry P Markovitz, Peter M Dodek, Daren K Heyland, and Jeffrey I Gold.
    • Department of Anesthesiology Critical Care Medicine, Children's Hospital Los Angeles, Keck School of Medicine, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA, USA. Electronic address: depstein@chla.usc.edu.
    • J Crit Care. 2015 Apr 1; 30 (2): 236-41.

    PurposeBecause of previously documented health care disparities, we hypothesized that English-speaking Latino parents/caregivers would be less satisfied with care and decision making than English-speaking non-Latino white (NLW) parents/caregivers.Materials And MethodsAn intensive care unit (ICU) family satisfaction survey, Family Satisfaction in the Intensive Care Unit Survey (pediatric, 24 question version), was completed by English-speaking parents/caregivers of children in a cardiothoracic ICU at a university-affiliated children's hospital in 2011. English-speaking NLW and Latino parents/caregivers of patients, younger than 18 years, admitted to the ICU were approached to participate on hospital day 3 or 4 if they were at the bedside for greater than or equal to 2 days. Analysis of variance, χ(2), and Student t tests were used. Cronbach αs were calculated.ResultsFifty parents/caregivers completed the survey in each group. Latino parents/caregivers were younger, more often mothers born outside the United States, more likely to have government insurance or no insurance, and had less education and income. There were no differences between the groups' mean overall satisfaction scores (92.6 ± 8.3 and 93.0 ± 7.1, respectively; P = .80). The Family Satisfaction in the Intensive Care Unit Survey (pediatric, 24 question version) showed high internal consistency reliability (α = .95 and .91 for NLW and Latino groups, respectively).ConclusionsNo disparities in ICU satisfaction with care and decision making between English-speaking NLW and Latino parents/caregivers were found.Copyright © 2014 Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.

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