Facilitators and barriers to parental involvement in neonatal pain management in the NICU: a scoping review.

ABSTRACT:

Objectives

Neonatal pain prevention is not only a humanistic but also an ethical imperative. Fitting with the principles of family-centred care, parental involvement in neonatal pain management plays an active role in infant development and parental well-being. However, the process of parental involvement faces constant challenges. To help structure and implement a family engagement programme in neonatal pain management in the neonatal intensive care unit (NICU), we conducted a scoping review to identify facilitators and barriers to parental involvement in neonatal pain management.

Methods

We conducted the scoping review using the Arksey and O'Malley framework. PubMed, Cochrane Library, Web of Science, CINAHL, Scopus, Wanfang database (Chinese), CNKI (Chinese), VIP database(

SUBMITTER: Feng L 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC11781106 | biostudies-literature | 2025 Jan

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature