Interventions to improve quantitative measures of parent satisfaction in neonatal care: a systematic review.

ABSTRACT:

Objective

Interventions improving parent satisfaction can reduce parent stress, may improve parent-infant bonding and infant outcomes. Our objective was to systematically review neonatal interventions relating to parents of infants of all gestations where an outcome was parent satisfaction.

Methods

We searched the databases MEDLINE, EMBASE, PsychINFO, Cochrane Central Register of Controlled Trials, CINAHL, HMIC, Maternity and Infant Care between 1 January 1946 and 1 October 2017. Inclusion criteria were randomised controlled trials (RCT), cohort studies and other non-randomised studies if participants were parents of infants receiving neonatal care, interventions were implemented in neonatal units (of any care level) and ≥1 quantitative outcome of parent satisfaction was mea

SUBMITTER: Sakonidou S 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC7073789 | biostudies-literature | 2020

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature