What memories do school-aged children have of their stay in the Paediatric Intensive Care Unit?
Funded by: Birmingham Children’s Hospital Research Foundation (Nursing Award) Project leads: Mrs Joy Grech (Research Sister, PICU, Birmingham Children’s Hospital), Dr Jane Coad (Senior Research Fellow, UWE) Project team: Julie Rees (Clinical Psychologist), Derek Farrell (Senior Lecturer), Catrice Horsely (Story Teller), Karen Kelly (Play Specialist) The explicit participation of children and young people in U.K social, health and public policy has increased in recent years (DOH 2003). As a consequence, literature pertaining to the methods most likely to elicit children’s views using credible and authentic techniques has emerged (Coad and Lewis, 2004). The literature exploring the memories that children have of Paediatric Intensive Care is sparse, however recently Shears et al (2005) established a link between Paediatric Intensive Care Unit (PICU) stay and Post Traumatic Distress Syndrome, in children with Meningococcal Disease, which suggests that some children do have memories of thei
