Effectiveness of the Close Collaboration with Parents intervention on parent-infant closeness in NICU.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Parent-infant closeness during hospital care of newborns has many benefits for both infants and parents. We developed an educational intervention for neonatal staff, Close Collaboration with Parents, to increase parent-infant closeness during hospital care. The aim of this study was to evaluate the effectiveness of the intervention on parent-infant closeness in nine hospitals in Finland.

Methods

Parents of hospitalized infants were recruited in the hospitals during 3-month periods before and after the Close Collaboration with Parents intervention. The data were collected using daily Closeness diaries. Mothers and fathers separately filled in the time they spent in the hospital and the time of skin-to-skin contact with their infant during each hospital care day unt

SUBMITTER: He FB 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC7798198 | biostudies-literature | 2021 Jan

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature