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Actions for Empowered Maternal Neonatal Care (ACUNE): A Nursing Intervention

NCT05005988 · Status: UNKNOWN · Phase: NA · Type: INTERVENTIONAL · Enrollment: 30

Last updated 2022-02-03

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Summary

The quality of care premature infants receive at home after hospital discharge is critical to their health and well-being. Premature infants require special care, which is why Neonatal Intensive Care Units (NICUs) have processes in place to prepare mothers for discharge. However, this experience is very complex for mothers, who often experience high levels of stress, anxiety, sadness and uncertainty. Mothers need knowledge and skills about caring for a premature infant, but they also need to gain confidence, believe in their abilities, and become empowered to participate more actively and confidently in decisions that have to do with their child's health. Several approaches exist to prepare mothers for home-based infant care; in the present study, an intervention focused on empowerment is proposed as a way to strengthen mothers' competence to care for their preterm infants and improve infant health outcomes. The intervention is expected to have adequate acceptability and feasibility, as well as preliminary evidence that it improves mothers' competence to care for their infants and decreases readmissions, emergency department visits, improves weight gain and health outcomes of preterm infants.

Conditions

  • Patient Empowerment

Interventions

BEHAVIORAL

Actions for Empowered Maternal Neonatal Care

The intervention includes three 30-minute face-to-face sessions: Session 1. Recognizing prematurity and the NICU environment: includes definitions of prematurity, characteristics of premature infants, equipment and dynamics of NICU care. Mothers are encouraged to identify their own and contextual resources that can help empower them. Session 2. Identifying the care of a premature baby: aspects related to the kangaroo method, feeding, thermoregulation, among others, are presented. Knowledge is presented as an empowerment resource. Session 3: Preparation for the return home. Aspects related to the discharge process and transition to home are described. Includes information on the transition home, warning signs, emergency situations, physical burden, and recognition of sources of personal and professional support. Session on admission to the out-of-hospital kangaroo program: presents the dynamics of the kangaroo program, as well as the goals in the new care setting.

Sponsors & Collaborators

  • Universidad de Antioquia

    lead OTHER

Principal Investigators

  • Sandra P Osorio Galeano, MD · Universidad de Antioquia

  • Angela M Salazar Maya, PhD · Universidad de Antioquia

Study Design

Allocation
RANDOMIZED
Purpose
PREVENTION
Masking
SINGLE
Model
PARALLEL

Eligibility

Min Age
15 Years
Max Age
50 Years
Sex
FEMALE
Healthy Volunteers
No

Timeline & Regulatory

Start
2021-10-20
Primary Completion
2022-03-30
Completion
2022-05-30

Countries

  • Colombia

Study Locations

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