Association Between the Support of NICU Team and Subjective Health of Parents

Conditions Influencing Health Status Clinical Trial

Official title:

Association Between the Support of Neonatal Intensive Care Unit (NICU) Team and Subjective Health of Parents to a Premature Infant

Clinical Trial Details — Status: Completed

Administrative data

• NCT number: NCT01006928
• Other study ID #: HY0015-09-IL
• Status: Completed
• Phase: N/A
• First received: November 1, 2009
• Last updated: June 5, 2011
• Start date: December 2009
• Est. completion date: June 2010

Study information

• Verified date: June 2011
• Source: Hillel Yaffe Medical Center
• Contact: n/a
• Is FDA regulated: No
• Health authority: Israel: Ministry of Health
• Study type: Observational

Clinical Trial Summary

Preterm birth is a traumatic event for parents. They cope with threatening and unfamiliar environment of hospital, losing the parental role, and frustration. The NICU team is the main support source for these parents. Support and providing information are most important for parents, as they can have some control, involvement and self confidence during the hospitalization, and also feel healthier. The hypothesis of this study is that better support to parents lead to better subjective health feeling by them.

The study will be held among mothers to infants in NICU who are at least 7 days old. The study will use a questionaire to assess the subjective health feeling and the estimation of the support from the team. Sample size is about 150 mothers.

Description:

Preterm birth is a traumatic event for parents. They cope with threatening and unfamiliar environment of hospital, losing the parental role, and frustration. The NICU team is the main support source for these parents. Support and providing information are most important for parents, as they can have some control, involvement and self confidence during the hospitalization, and also feel healthier. The hypothesis of this study is that better support to parents lead to better subjective health feeling by them.

The study will be held among mothers to infants in NICU who are at least 7 days old. The study will use a questionaire to assess the subjective health feeling and the estimation of the support from the team. Sample size is about 150 mothers.

Recruitment information / eligibility

• Status: Completed
• Enrollment: 150
• Est. completion date: June 2010
• Est. primary completion date: June 2010
• Accepts healthy volunteers: Accepts Healthy Volunteers
• Gender: Both
• Age group: N/A to 60 Years

Eligibility

Inclusion Criteria:

• Mothers to preterm infants in NICU

Exclusion Criteria:

• Mothers to Infants in NICU who are not preterm

• Mothers to Infants in NICU who died during hospitalization

• Mothers to Infants in NICU who were transferred to another hospital during hospitalization

Study Design

Observational Model: Case-Only, Time Perspective: Cross-Sectional

Related Conditions & MeSH terms

• Conditions Influencing Health Status

Intervention

Other:
• Questionaire
Questionaire to mothers

Locations

Country	Name	City	State
Israel	Hillel Yaffe medical center	Hadera

Sponsors (1)

Lead Sponsor	Collaborator
Hillel Yaffe Medical Center

Country where clinical trial is conducted

Israel, 

References & Publications (2)

Arockiasamy V, Holsti L, Albersheim S. Fathers' experiences in the neonatal intensive care unit: a search for control. Pediatrics. 2008 Feb;121(2):e215-22. doi: 10.1542/peds.2007-1005. Epub 2008 Jan 8. — View Citation

Bloom KC. The development of attachment behaviors in pregnant adolescents. Nurs Res. 1995 Sep-Oct;44(5):284-9. — View Citation

Outcome

Type	Measure	Description	Time frame	Safety issue
Primary	Good subjective health feeling of mother.		6 months	No