Family integrated care: Supporting parents as primary caregivers in the neonatal intensive care unit.

ABSTRACT: Family integrated care (FICare) is a collaborative model of neonatal care which aims to address the negative impacts of the neonatal intensive care unit (NICU) environment by involving parents as equal partners, minimizing separation, and supporting parent-infant closeness. FICare incorporates psychological, educational, communication, and environmental strategies to support parents to cope with the NICU environment and to prepare them to be able to emotionally, cognitively, and physically care for their infant. FICare has been associated with improved infant feeding, growth, and parent wellbeing and self-efficacy; important mediators for long-term improved infant neurodevelopmental and behavioural outcomes. FICare implementation requires multi-disciplinary commitment, staff motivation, an

SUBMITTER: Waddington C 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC8212757 | biostudies-literature | 2021 Jun

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature