Prenatal Workshops and Support Groups for Prospective Parents Whose Children Will Need Neonatal Care at Birth: A Feasibility and Pilot Study.

ABSTRACT: Introduction: Support groups in neonatal intensive care units (NICUs) are beneficial to parents. The usefulness of prenatal support groups for prospective parents who will have a newborn requiring admission to the NICU has never been investigated. Methods: We assessed the needs of NICU parents regarding topics they would have wished to discuss prenatally and developed the content of a prenatal support workshop. A standardized survey prospectively evaluated the perspectives of pregnant women admitted to a high-risk pregnancy unit who participated in the resulting workshops. Results: During needs assessment, 295 parents invoked themes they would have wished to discuss antenatally: parental guilt, future parental role, normalizing their experience/emotions, coping with ma

SUBMITTER: Boutillier B 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC10529479 | biostudies-literature | 2023 Sep

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature