Psychosocial stress factors in families with preterm infants during the Covid-19 pandemic: a cross-sectional study.

ABSTRACT:

Background

The Covid-19 pandemic restrictions severely impacted parents' and children's mental and physical health. Families with pre-existing stress factors may have been particularly affected. Parental stress following premature birth is well acknowledged. The addition of the pandemic restrictions to stressors related to premature birth may constitute an especially high-risk factor for family stress and thereby neuropsychological development. Accessibility to special preterm follow-up care programs is important for neuropsychological development and faced additional relevance in the face of pandemic related stressors. We studied the hypothesis that families with preterm born infants were particularly adversely affected by the pandemic-related restrictions in comparison to familie

SUBMITTER: Fendel A 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC11971739 | biostudies-literature | 2025 Apr

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature