Table 3.
New mental health care by parent subgroup
| PICU group | |||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Characteristic | LOS* 1 day | LOS 2-7 days |
LOS >7 days |
Child with co- morbidity |
Child without co- morbidity |
Post- Discharge deaths |
Total |
| Parents , n | 38,408 | 49,763 | 6,899 | 63,562 | 31,508 | 542 | 95,070 |
| New Parental mental health diagnosis, n (%) | |||||||
| Depression | 1,147 (3.0) | 1,404 (2.8) | 234 (3.4) | 1,967 (3.1) | 818 (2.6) | 57 (10.5) | 2,785 (2.9) |
| Anxiety | 1,069 (2.8) | 1,391 (2.8) | 214 (3.1) | 1,872 (3.0) | 802 (2.6) | 26 (4.8) | 2,674 (2.8) |
| Acute Stress Disorder/Post-traumatic Stress Disorder | 641 (1.7) | 783 (1.6) | 167 (2.4) | 1,256 (2.0) | 513 (1.6) | 23 (4.2) | 1,601 (1.7) |
| Other mental health disorders | 1,127 (2.9) | 1,412 (2.8) | 195 (2.8) | 1,339 (2.1) | 645 (2.0) | 15 (2.8) | 1,984 (2.1) |
| New parental use of mental health counseling, n (%) | 280 (0.7) | 323 (0.7) | 52 (0.8) | 629 (1.0) | 248 (0.8) | 7 (1.3) | 655 (0.7) |
| New antidepressant use, n (%) | 1,270 (3.3) | 1,629 (3.3) | 289 (4.2) | 2,191 (3.5) | 997 (3.2) | 39 (7.2) | 3,188 (3.4) |
| New anxiolytic use, n (%) | 1,489 (3.9) | 1,884 (3.8) | 376 (5.5) | 2,548 (4.0) | 1,201 (3.8) | 61 (11.3) | 3,749 (3.9) |
LOS = length of stay