Mandel School’s Francisca Richter receives grant to explore potential long-term impact of sedative use in PICU
Francisca Richter, PhD, research associate professor at Jack, Joseph and Morton Mandel School of Applied Social Sciences and co-director of the Center on Poverty and Community Development, recently received an R21 from the Eunice Kennedy Shriver National Institute of Child Health and Human Development for a a multi-institutional collaborative study.
Titled “Kindergarten readiness assessment scores after having early-childhood respiratory failure,” Richter’s study will explore potential long-term effects of receiving sedatives during a pediatric intensive care unit stay.
To test their hypothesis that benzodiazepine sedatives are a modifiable risk factor for long-term negative consequences, Richter and her team will link administrative data collected from Pediatric Intensive Care Unit (PICU) patients at University Hospitals and Cleveland Clinic and kindergarten readiness assessments available through the Child and Household Integrated Longitudinal Data (CHILD) system.
The CHILD system is maintained by the Center on Poverty and Community Development and collects kindergarten readiness scores from 14 local school districts in Cuyahoga County.
