Parents' Perception of Staff Support in a Father-Friendly Neonatal Intensive Care Unit.

ABSTRACT: Healthcare professionals, especially nurses, play a central role in supporting parents during their stay in neonatal intensive care units (NICUs). Fathers often have their own support needs; however, studies have shown that these needs are rarely met to the same degree as those of the mothers. We developed a "father-friendly NICU" with the aim of providing good-quality care to the entire family. To evaluate the impact of this concept, we adopted a quasi-experimental design; using the Nurse Parent Support Tool (NPST), we investigated the differences in the fathers' (n = 497) and mothers' (n = 562) perception of the nursing support received on admission and discharge between before and after the intervention. In the historical control and intervention groups, the fathers' median NPST

SUBMITTER: Risanger LI 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC10136709 | biostudies-literature | 2023 Mar

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature