Family Integrated Care: A Feasibility Study in a Level II Special Care Nursery

KK Women's and Children's Hospital

Status: Completed

Conditions: Family Centered Care; Neonatal

Treatments: Other: Family Education and Parental Involvement

Study type: Interventional

Funder types: Other

Identifiers

NCT07122830

CRADLE/2023/RES/003 (Other Grant/Funding Number)

2023-2643

Details and patient eligibility

About

The goal of this mixed methods study is to assess the feasibility and acceptability of a parent-led family integrated care program in a Level II neonatal unit.

The main questions it aims to answer are:

• Is it feasible to implement a parent-led Family Integrated Care (FIC) program in a Level II neonatal unit?
• How acceptable is the FIC program to parents and nurses?
• Can the FIC program help improve parental self-efficacy and infant outcomes?

Enrollment: 13 patients

Sex: All

Ages: 21+ years old

Volunteers: Accepts Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion criteria

• Parents of infants admitted to the Level II neonatal unit who anticipate at least 2 weeks of stay
• Parents of infants who can commit to coming daily for one to two hours.

Exclusion criteria

• Infants have severe congenital anomalies
• Infants receiving pallitaive care
• Infants who are critically ill / deemed unlikely to survive
• Infants scheduled for early transfer
• Parents are unable to participate due to health, social, or language issues that would inhibit their communication with the medical and nursing team.

Trial design

Primary purpose: Other

Allocation: Non-Randomized

Interventional model: Parallel Assignment

Masking: None (Open label)

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13 participants in 2 patient groups

FIC Group

Active Comparator group

Treatment:

Other: Family Education and Parental Involvement

Control Group

No Intervention group

Description:

The usual standard of care will be provided for this group.