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The Effect of Family Integrated Care on Preparing Parents With Premature Infants Hospitalized in the Neonatal Intensive Care Unit for Discharge

NCT04478162 · Status: COMPLETED · Phase: NA · Type: INTERVENTIONAL · Enrollment: 68

Last updated 2023-12-20

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Summary

Physiological and structural features of premature infants differ from mature newborns. Families worry about touching their very sensitive and fragile babies, which are quite different from their expectations, and they seriously concern about how they will take care of their babies who are cared for by the specialist staff at the hospital when they are discharged to home. Different approaches and models are applied in the Neonatal Intensive Care Units (NICU) to prepare families, especially mothers, for the discharge process and to overcome these fears of the parents. However, most of the time, investigators observe in both researches and units that these approaches are not efficient. In this study, which investigators started with the questions as "What can investigators do better in this issue?" and "How can investigators help families more in this process?", investigator have seen that Family Integrated Care (FICare) model is applied in some clinics abroad and successful results have been obtained. However, investigators did not come across a study that applied this model and examined the effect of it on parents on being ready for discharge. Since this study will be a first in terms of both this aspect and the application of this model in our country, in this unique study, investigators aim to draw attention to this approach in our country, also contribute to keeping the premature babies healthy.

Research Hypotheses:

H0 There is no difference between the readiness for discharge of mothers and fathers included in the FICare model compared to the control group.

H1 The hypothesis of this study is that the mothers included in the FICare model have higher levels of discharge readiness than the control group.

H2 The hypothesis of this study is that the fathers included in the FICare model have higher levels of discharge readiness than the control group.

Conditions

  • Neonatal Intensive Care Unit
  • Parents

Interventions

OTHER

Supporting parents who have premature babies to be ready for discharge with the training given within the scope of FICare model.

At least 1 week of FICare training for parents At least 4 hours of training on FICare for health professionals Trainings will be held between 13:30 and 15:30 in a training room with heat, light and seating arrangement (for parents who are not able to participate in the training during the week, trainings will be held at the appropriate time interval on the weekend .) Premature baby dummy on oral care, eye care, nose care, ear care, skin care, bath, attired in clothes,/removal, safe sleeping baby, safe transport, kangaroo care (physical contact), non-invasive drug application will be shown and the parents also will be asked to implement,

Sponsors & Collaborators

  • Sakarya University

    lead OTHER

Principal Investigators

  • Nursan ÇINAR, Proffesor · Sakarya University

Study Design

Allocation
RANDOMIZED
Purpose
SUPPORTIVE_CARE
Masking
SINGLE
Model
PARALLEL

Eligibility

Min Age
19 Years
Max Age
50 Years
Sex
ALL
Healthy Volunteers
Yes

Timeline & Regulatory

Start
2020-02-06
Primary Completion
2021-08-15
Completion
2021-08-15

Countries

  • Turkey (Türkiye)

Study Locations

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