Clinical trial NCT01006928: Association Between the Support of NICU Team and Subjective Health of Parents
Official title: Association Between the Support of Neonatal Intensive Care Unit (NICU) Team and Subjective Health of Parents to a Premature Infant
Study type: OBSERVATIONAL
Overall status: COMPLETED
Conditions: Conditions Influencing Health Status
Keywords: Subjective health feeling
NICU
team support
Lead sponsor: Hillel Yaffe Medical Center
Sponsor class: OTHER_GOV
First posted: 2009-11-03
Enrollment: 150
Sex: ALL
Maximum age (years): 60
Standard ages: CHILD
ADULT
Accepts healthy volunteers: yes
Observational model: CASE_ONLY
Time perspective: CROSS_SECTIONAL
Sampling method: NON_PROBABILITY_SAMPLE
Study population: Mothers of infants in NICU

Brief 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.

Detailed 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.

Eligibility criteria: 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

Primary outcomes:
measure: Good subjective health feeling of mother.
timeFrame: 6 months
Secondary outcomes:
Other outcomes:
Locations:
city: Hadera
country: Israel
facility: Hillel Yaffe medical center
Study officials:
affiliation: Hillel Yaffe medical centet, Hadera, Israel
name: Erez Nadir, MD
role: PRINCIPAL_INVESTIGATOR
References:
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