Attachment Bonding and Neonatal Hospitalization: the Impact of Hospitalization in a Kangaroo Unit (UKLA)

Centre Hospitalier Régional Metz-Thionville

Status: Enrolling

Conditions: Postnatal Care

Treatments: Behavioral: Mother-child bond

Study type: Observational

Funder types: Other

Identifiers

NCT06243861

2023-08Obs-CHRMT

Details and patient eligibility

About

The Kangaroo Unit (UK) takes care of newborns requiring special care or monitoring for a pathology whose clinical situation is stable and whose prognosis is favorable. In order to avoid separating mother and child, these units were created with a care pathway somewhere between that requiring hospitalization in a neonatal unit and that of pathology-free newborns in post-natal care. Theoretically, the mother-child bond created in the UK is as good as that created in conventional post-natal care. However, studies show that there are limits to the quality of the bond in the UK. This study aims to assess whether the mother-child bond is degraded in the UK, in comparison with that of mothers in post-natal care.

Enrollment: 96 estimated patients

Sex: Female

Ages: 18+ years old

Volunteers: No Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion criteria

• Patient over 18 years of age, hospitalized in a Kangaroo Unit or in a post-natal unit,
• Affiliated to a social security scheme,
• fluent in French
• no objection of participation

Exclusion criteria

• Patient who :

  • given birth to a child who was stillborn or died at birth
  • difficulty understanding written French
  • psychological incapacity (psychiatric disorder, too great a vulnerability) or physical incapacity (physical/motor disability) to answer questionnaires,

• Patient under court protection, guardianship or curatorship.

Trial design

96 participants in 2 patient groups

kangaroo unit

Treatment:

Behavioral: Mother-child bond

postnatal care

Treatment:

Behavioral: Mother-child bond