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December 20, 2023Child Care Health and Development

An examination of characteristics, social supports, caregiver resilience and hospital readmissions of children with medical complexity

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Why the study?

Children with medical complexity face frequent hospital readmissions and poor health outcomes, but a link between caregiver social support, resilience, and readmissions has never been fully investigated.

Population

Caregivers of children with medical complexity with unplanned hospitalizations who completed 76 surveys

Design

Prospective, descriptive, repeated measures feasibility study

Follow-up

60 days after discharge

Authors

HKHeather KennedyACAlexandra ColeLBLaura Berbert

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Overview

Prospective design feasible for assessing CMC caregiver factors; leaves open whether support or resilience influences readmissions.

Structured PICO

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Population
Caregivers of children with medical complexity (CMC) with unplanned hospitalizations
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Outcome
Feasibility (enrolment, attrition, survey completion and item response), caregiver resilience (Resilience Scale-14), and hospital readmissionspatient reported

A prospective repeated measures design is feasible for studying caregiver resilience and social supports in children with medical complexity, revealing high readmission rates but stable caregiver resilience.

Cite This Study

Kennedy et al. (2023) studied this question.

synapsesocial.com/papers/6a71504ca528af2d65c40432https://doi.org/10.1111/cch.13206
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