Parental Self-Efficacy and Personal Time Help Explain Impact of Parent-Staff Interactions on Parental Distress and Bonding in the Neonatal Intensive Care Unit.

ABSTRACT:

Objectives

To identify factors that help explain associations between parent-staff interactions and: (1) parental depression, anxiety, and post-traumatic stress; and (2) parent-child bonding in the neonatal intensive care unit.

Study design

Our cross-sectional mixed methods survey investigated the ways in which parental-staff interactions relate to parental distress and parent-child bonding. Parents with babies in the neonatal intensive care unit (n = 165) completed validated measures and open-ended questions about their experiences with staff. Using a sequential explanatory approach, we examined: (1) whether and how parental self-efficacy and personal time mediated parent-staff interactions on distress and bonding; and (2) parental written accounts of experiences with staff

SUBMITTER: Grunberg VA 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC11645195 | biostudies-literature | 2025 Jan

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature