A Randomized Controlled Trial of Listening Visits for Mothers of Hospitalized Newborns.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Emotional distress is frequently experienced by mothers whose newborns are hospitalized in a neonatal intensive care unit (NICU). Among these women, there is a critical need for emotional support conveniently delivered at the newborn's point of care by a trusted and medically knowledgeable professional: a NICU nurse. One promising way to enhance in situ delivery of emotional care is to have a NICU nurse provide Listening Visits (LVs), a brief support intervention developed expressly for delivery by nurses to depressed postpartum women.

Objectives

This trial assessed the feasibility of having NICU nurses deliver LVs to emotionally distressed mothers of hospitalized newborns and compared depression outcomes in a small sample of participants randomized to LVs or usua

SUBMITTER: Segre LS 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC10329483 | biostudies-literature | 2023 May-Jun 01

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature