Moms in the NICU: developing a pilot to engage and empower women who have delivered a prematurely born infant.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Mothers spend long hours at their preterm infant's bedside in the Neonatal Intensive Care Unit (NICU), giving clinicians the opportunity to engage mothers in caring for their own health.

Objective

To develop a NICU based intervention to reduce the risk of a future premature birth by engaging and empowering mothers to improve their own health and identify barriers to implementing their improvement.

Design

Development based on a framework of narrative discourse refined by the Quality Improvement Plan Do Study Act Approach.

Setting

Level II Stepdown Neonatal Intensive Care Unit.

Participants

14 mothers of preterm infants, ages 24-39 years.

Methods

A team of Maternal Fetal Medicine Physicians, obstetricians, neonatologists, neonatal nurses,

SUBMITTER: Padua K 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC10257253 | biostudies-literature | 2023 Jun

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature