Neonatal Intensive Care Unit Virtual Family-Centered Rounds

University of California (UC) Davis

Status: Completed

Conditions: Pediatric Disorder; Neonatal Disease

Treatments: Behavioral: Virtual family-centered rounds (FCR)

Study type: Interventional

Funder types: Other

Identifiers

NCT05762835

1764454

Details and patient eligibility

About

The aim of this study is to evaluate the impact of virtual family-centered rounds in the neonatal intensive care unit on parental and neonatal outcomes.

Enrollment: 514 patients

Sex: All

Ages: Under 365 years old

Volunteers: No Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion and exclusion criteria

Enrolling family units (which consists of INFANTS and PARENTS [SURVEYS]):

INFANT Inclusion

• Infants aged less than 365 days who are admitted to the NICU
• Have at least one adult parent or guardian with English proficiency

INFANT Exclusion

• Have restrictions placed by child protective services, including visitation restrictions or restricted access to patient information
• Infants with a previous NICU admission (and enrollment) during the trial period

PARENTS [SURVEYS] Inclusion

• Parents/guardians of the eligible infants (described above)
• Age 18 years and older

PARENTS [SURVEYS] Exclusion

• Age less than 18 years
• Non-English speaking

Trial design

Primary purpose: Health Services Research

Allocation: Randomized

Interventional model: Parallel Assignment

Masking: None (Open label)

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514 participants in 2 patient groups

Intervention (Virtual Family-Centered Rounds [FCR])

Experimental group

Description:

Virtual FCR-arm parents/guardians (referred to as "parents" hereafter) will have the option use have the option to use telehealth for virtual rounds. Parents can participate in virtual FCR as much, or as little, as they choose. Parents also will have the option to attend FCR in person or to not attend FCR.

Treatment:

Behavioral: Virtual family-centered rounds (FCR)

Control (Usual Care)

No Intervention group

Description:

Usual care-arm parents will receive usual care. Usual care-arm parents will have the option to attend FCR in person or to not attend FCR.