Status:

WITHDRAWN

Improving Sleep in the Pediatric Intensive Care Unit

Lead Sponsor:

University of Rochester

Conditions:

Critically Ill

Eligibility:

All Genders

1-15 years

Phase:

NA

Brief Summary

Sleep is disrupted in the PICU. This disruption has been reported in studies that have used: (a) observation of sleep-wake cycles (b) self-reports by children themselves , and (c) objective measures (...

Detailed Description

While often life saving, the need for admission to the pediatric intensive care unit (PICU) places children in a profoundly artificial environment that has the potential to alter the biological proces...

Eligibility Criteria

Inclusion

  • Parents or primary caregivers ages 18 years or older, who can read and speak English and their critically ill children who meet the following criteria will be eligible for participation (a) ages 1-15 years, (b) anticipated survival, (c) no severe handicapping (neurological) conditions, (d) not a prior transplant patient, (e) no active oncology or metabolic process (other than diabetes), (f) not diagnosed with a traumatic brain injury and (a) between 1 and 15 years of age, (b) expected length of stay \>2days, (c) expected to live, and (d) parents that can read and write English

Exclusion

  • diagnosis of cancer, a previous transplant patient, diagnosis of a metabolic disorder (except for diabetes), neurological conditions that would affect sleep wake cycles, a traumatic brain injury patient, evidence of abuse. These conditions are known to affect sleep patterns and/or immune system and (a) not meeting inclusion criteria, (b) anticipated death of the child, (c) parents/primary caregiver make a personal choice to withdraw themselves and their child from the study, (d) the child has evidence of abuse.

Key Trial Info

Start Date :

September 1 2005

Trial Type :

INTERVENTIONAL

Allocation :

ACTUAL

End Date :

August 1 2006

Estimated Enrollment :

Patients enrolled

Trial Details

Trial ID

NCT00178321

Start Date

September 1 2005

End Date

August 1 2006

Last Update

April 30 2015

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University of Rochester

Rochester, New York, United States, 14642