Telephone Follow-up From an Intensive Care Nursery

Completed

Conditions studied: Information Retention

In brief

The first few weeks after leaving the Neonatal Intensive Care Unit (NICU) can be a difficult transition time for caregivers of a previously hospitalized infant. To help ease this stressful period, doctors and nurses give caregivers a large amount of information prior to their infant leaving the NCIU. How much caregivers remember about medications, follow-up appointments, and general well-child care has not been studied. Caregivers who choose to participate will receive a phone call 2-7 days after discharge where they will be asked questions pertaining to the information that was discussed with them at the time of discharge. The purpose of the study is to determine how much information caregivers retain after leaving the NICU.

Key facts

Study ID

NCT00604240

Run by

Christiana Care Health Services

People needed

175

Starts

2007-11-01

Expected to finish

2008-12-01

Last updated by the study team

2017-05-10

Who can join

Age: any. Sex: any. Healthy volunteers: accepted.

You may qualify if…

• Parents/caregivers of infants who have spent one week or longer in the NICU at Christiana Hospital or Thomas Jefferson University Hospital.

You may not qualify if…

• Parents / caregivers of infants who have spent less than one week in the NICU at Christiana Hospital or Thomas Jefferson University Hospital.

Where it is running

• Christiana Hospital — Newark, Delaware, United States
• Thomas Jefferson University Hospital — Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States

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