Parental Stress In the Pediatric Intensive Care Unit

Abstract

My PhD dissertation is about parental stress in the Pediatric Intensive Care Unit (PICU). The dissertation consisted of three studies: Study (1) was about parents experiences and responses when their child was admitted to the PICU; Study (2) was about parental challenges outside the PICU that concurrently occurred when their child was admitted to the POCU, and Study (3) was a content validity of PArental Stressors Scale in the PICU.