The SCETCH project - Survivors of childhood critical illness: Exploring long-term psychosocial well-being and needs

Project Duration

March 2011 – September 2014

Funder

National Institute for Health Research/Nottingham University Hospitals NHS Trust

Aims

To explore and understand the nature and construct of psychosocial well-being, in the long-term, described by children and adolescents who survive acute life threatening critical illness.

Methods

Single centre, longitudinal, multiple case study design. A tool box of methods will be used that include: 

• narratives
• semi-structured interviews
• art-based approaches, such as creative writing, draw and tell, play, and photograph elicitation

Stage of Development

Data collection to be completed by June 2013.