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A Father-friendly Neonatal Intensive Care Unit

NCT05521620 · Status: COMPLETED · Phase: NA · Type: INTERVENTIONAL · Enrollment: 500

Last updated 2022-08-31

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Summary

An early parent-child relationship is important for a child's development, both intellectually and socially. The admission of premature or ill newborns to neonatal intensive care units (NICUs) may make the establishment of the parent-child relationship challenging due to parents' anxiety and despair.

Traditionally, most healthcare professionals have mainly focused on infants and mothers, even though fathers often feel stressed, powerless, and helpless, and find it difficult to establish a father-child relationship. The aim of this study is to investigate the effect of a father-friendly NICU on infants, parents and staff.

Conditions

  • Stress
  • Self Efficacy
  • Perception, Self

Interventions

BEHAVIORAL

The father-friendly NICU

* Fathers have skin-to-skin contact with their infants * Fathers participate in important situations * Fathers receive information and guidance directly * Both parents participate in meaningful conversations * The department organize mother and father groups * The families have the opportunity to have a close family member to support them * Older siblings have the opportunity to stay overnight. * The department offer counseling by a social worker

Sponsors & Collaborators

  • Kolding Sygehus

    lead OTHER

Principal Investigators

  • Betty Noergaard, Ph.d · Department of Paediatrics and Adolescent Medicine, Lillebaelt Hospital,Kolding

Study Design

Allocation
NON_RANDOMIZED
Purpose
SUPPORTIVE_CARE
Masking
NONE
Model
SEQUENTIAL

Eligibility

Sex
ALL
Healthy Volunteers
No

Timeline & Regulatory

Start
2011-12-01
Primary Completion
2015-01-31
Completion
2021-02-11

Countries

  • Denmark

Study Locations

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