Maternal experience of intermittent kangaroo mother care for late preterm infants: a mixed-methods study in four postnatal wards in China.

ABSTRACT:

Objective

To describe how mothers of late preterm infants experienced the provision of intermittent kangaroo mother care (KMC) in four postnatal wards in different hospitals in China, under a pilot KMC project.

Design

A concurrent mixed-methods approach incorporating quantitative maternal questionnaires and qualitative semistructured interviews.

Setting

Four postnatal wards in level-III hospitals based in different provinces of Southeast and Northwest China.

Participants

All 752 mothers who provided intermittent KMC to their late preterm newborns in the four participating postnatal wards consented to participate in the study (quantitative component), as well as six nurses, two obstetricians and two mothers from two of the participating postnatal wards (qualitat

SUBMITTER: Zhang B 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC8424842 | biostudies-literature | 2021 Sep

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature