The Relationship Between Postoperative Complications and Children's Quality of Life : A Mediation Analysis to Explore the Role of Family Factors

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OBJECTIVES: To explore whether postoperative morbidities after pediatric cardiac surgery affected children's health-related quality of life (HRQOL) at 6 months, through potentially modifiable parental psychological factors.

DESIGN: We undertook a mediation analysis, to explore the causal pathway, based on data from a prospective, case-matched cohort study.

PATIENTS: Six hundred sixty-six children undergoing cardiac surgery.

SETTING: Five centers in the United Kingdom.

INTERVENTIONS: No intervention.

MEASUREMENTS AND MAIN RESULTS: Cases of morbidity were identified early after pediatric cardiac surgery, and matched controls with no morbidities were identified at discharge. Four mediators were assessed at 6 weeks after surgery, using the PedsQL Family Impact Module (Parent HRQOL and Family Function) and the PHQ-4 (Anxiety and Depression). The study outcome of child HRQOL was assessed at 6 months with the PedsQL. Of 666 children, 408 (65% of those surviving) contributed to the primary outcome. Children who had extracorporeal life support (ECLS) ( n = 11) ( p < 0.05) and multiple morbidities ( n = 62) ( p < 0.01) had worse 6-month HRQOL than those with a single morbidity ( n = 125) or no morbidity ( n = 209). After adjustment for case mix complexity and sociodemographic variables, there were significant indirect effects of parent HRQOL at 6 weeks, on the PedsQL Total Score (ECLS, -5.1 [-8.4 to -1.8]; p = 0.003; multiple morbidities, -2.1 [-3.7 to -0.5]; p = 0.01), PedsQL Physical Score (ECLS, -5.1 [-8.7 to -1.4]; p = 0.007; multiple morbidities, -2.1 [-3.8 to -0.4]; p = 0.016), and PedsQL Psychosocial Score (ECLS: -5.3 [-8.7 to -1.8); p = 0.003; multiple morbidities, -2.2 [-3.9 to -0.5]; p = 0.01). The proportion of the total effect of ECLS and multiple morbidity on the study outcomes mediated through parent HRQOL ranges between 18% and 61%. There was no evidence that the other three mediators had indirect effects on the study outcome.

CONCLUSIONS: Parental HRQOL at 6 weeks after surgery contributes to child HRQOL at 6 months, among those with the severest types of morbidity, and as such should be a target for future interventions.

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E-Artikel

Erscheinungsjahr:

2023

Erschienen:

2023

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Zur Gesamtaufnahme - volume:24

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Pediatric critical care medicine : a journal of the Society of Critical Care Medicine and the World Federation of Pediatric Intensive and Critical Care Societies - 24(2023), 3 vom: 01. März, Seite 194-203

Sprache:

Englisch

Beteiligte Personen:

Brown, Katherine L [VerfasserIn]
Moinuddin, Mohammed [VerfasserIn]
Jones, Alison [VerfasserIn]
Sheehan, Karen [VerfasserIn]
Wellman, Paul [VerfasserIn]
Rodrigues, Warren [VerfasserIn]
Ridout, Deborah [VerfasserIn]
Wray, Jo [VerfasserIn]

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Date Completed 06.03.2023

Date Revised 23.08.2023

published: Print-Electronic

Citation Status MEDLINE

doi:

10.1097/PCC.0000000000003137

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PPN (Katalog-ID):

NLM352389745