Parental presence during invasive procedures in a Spanish pediatric emergency department: incidence, perspectives, and related XXXX .

@entity1 @entity341 @entity148 @entity174
BACKGROUND: Family presence during invasive procedures (IPs) is infrequent in Spanish @entity341 ( @entity341 ), despite the benefits of family presence. OBJECTIVES: To investigate the proportion of relatives who wish to be present during IP, to determine the percentage of relatives who stayed during IP in our PED, and to evaluate parental @entity148 . METHODS: A prospective observational study was carried out in a PED of an urban, tertiary-care university-affiliated hospital in Barcelona (Spain). A written survey was given to the relatives of @entity1 who were admitted to the PED during the month of November 2009. RESULTS: Of the 365 given questionnaires, 213 (58.4%) were completed. Ninety-nine percent of surveys were answered by the parents. Mean age of respondents was 37 years (74.6% were @entity1 ). IPs were performed on 73.3% of @entity1 , and 97.4% of IPs were performed in the presence of relatives. Parents were present during blood sampling (98%), urethral catheterizations (97%), lumbar punctures (LP; 72%), simple wound repair (62%), and @entity174 reductions (37%). Parents wanted to stay during blood sampling (98%), urethral catheterization (89.9%), LP (82.4%), simple wound repair (88.6%), and @entity174 reduction (86.5%). Respondents (51.6%) believed that parents should decide on their own whether their presence was desirable. Parents were least anxious during blood sampling and were most nervous during LP. CONCLUSION: Most of the parents wish to stay beside their @entity1 during IPs. In our PED, parents were present for more than 95% of IPs. The more invasive the procedure is, the more anxious parents feel.
