Benefits of COPE PICU
Parents:- Less stress in the pediatric unit
- Greater parental anticipation in their children's physical and emotional care on the pediatric unit
- Stronger parental beliefs/confidence in knowing what children's likely responses to hospitalization are and knowing how to enhance their children's adjustment on the pediatric unit
- Less parental negative mood after hospitalization
- Less depression after hospitalization
- Fewer parental PTSD symptoms after hospitalization
Children:
- Fewer withdrawal symptoms at 6 months after discharge
- Fewer overall negative behavioral symptoms and externalizing behaviors (including decreased hyperactivity) exhibited at 12 months after discharge
- Fewer clinically significant behavioral symptoms exhibited at 12 months after discharge
- Fewer clinically significant externalizing symptoms exhibited at 6 and 12 months after discharge
- Greater adaptability of children at 12 months after discharge