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

Hillel Yaffe Medical Center

Status: Completed

Conditions: Conditions Influencing Health Status

Treatments: Other: Questionaire

Study type: Observational

Funder types: Other

Identifiers

NCT01006928

HY0015-09-IL

Details and patient eligibility

About

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.

Full 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.

Enrollment: 150 patients

Sex: All

Ages: Under 60 years old

Volunteers: Accepts Healthy Volunteers

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

Trial design

150 participants in 1 patient group

Mothers

Description:

Mother of infants in NICU

Treatment:

Other: Questionaire