Home Support for Mothers Whose Premature Infants

Akdeniz University

Status: Completed

Conditions: Infant, Premature, Diseases; Mothers

Treatments: Behavioral: Providing guidance after discharge routine procedure and calling one week after discharge.; Behavioral: Discharge routine procedure.

Study type: Interventional

Funder types: Other

Identifiers

NCT04741672

19113

Details and patient eligibility

About

Premature births are a challenging process for parents in many ways. Especially after the treatment and care in the hospital, they are concerned about whether they will be able to provide adequate care for their baby at home. The aim of this study is to examine the effect of the guide and telephone support given to mothers whose premature infants were discharged from the neonatal intensive care unit on the perceived maternal self-efficacy and state anxiety levels.

Full description

The study was planned as a randomized controlled trial with a single blind, pretest-posttest design. This study will be conducted between February 2021 and March 2022 with premature infants mothers. The sample of the study will be mothers (n = 102) of premature infants discharged from Antalya Training and Research Hospital Neonatal Intensive Care Unit. 51 mothers participating in the study will be given a premature infant home care guide after the discharge routine procedures are completed. In addition, mothers will be given an appointment for a phone call a week later. No intervention will be applied to the other 51 mothers after their discharge routine. Data will be collected by Mother-Infant Descriptive Information Form, Perceived Maternity Self-Efficacy Scale (PMSES), State Anxiety Inventory (SAI). Data will be collected with forms and scales immediately after discharge (pre-test) and in the 4th week after discharge (post-test). Ethics Committee and Institutional Permission was obtained for the study. In addition, written consent will be obtained from the participants. Statistical analysis will be done using SPSS 23.0 and significance will be evaluated at p <0.05. Support will be received in the analysis phase of the Statistical Information Unit of Akdeniz University. It is predicted that the new information obtained from the research data will guide the education of premature infant mothers and new researches.

Enrollment: 102 patients

Sex: Female

Volunteers: Accepts Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion criteria

• The infant was born prematurely (37 weeks of gestation + 6 days earlier),
• Does not have advanced congenital anomalies in the baby,
• Who will carry out the primary care of the infant at home,
• Reading and writing,
• Can speak and understand Turkish,
• Mothers who agreed to participate in the study

Exclusion criteria

• Incomplete filling of the forms
• Mothers who previously had training in newborn care

Trial design

Primary purpose: Prevention

Allocation: Randomized

Interventional model: Parallel Assignment

Masking: Single Blind

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102 participants in 2 patient groups

Intervention group

Experimental group

Description:

Providing guidance and calling after discharge routine procedure.

Treatment:

Behavioral: Providing guidance after discharge routine procedure and calling one week after discharge.

Behavioral: Discharge routine procedure.

Control group

Experimental group

Description:

Discharge routine procedure.

Treatment:

Behavioral: Discharge routine procedure.