Abstract
This paper evaluates the stress levels of parents from this large sample whose children were admitted to the pediatric intensive care unit (PICU) following heart surgery. In analysis, the data from the 179 heart surgery parents were compared to the remaining 331 parents in the sample. A high percentage of the heart surgery children had been admitted for planned heart surgery (89%). The mean age of parents was 30, while the child’s mean age was 3.4, slightly lower than the overall group. Thirty-five percent of the sample were fathers and 65% were mothers. The majority of parents were Caucasion (92%) and were married to the parent of the sick child (90%).
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