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Effects of the Couplet Care in Neonatal Intensive Care Unit

NCT05655104 · Status: UNKNOWN · Type: OBSERVATIONAL · Enrollment: 30

Last updated 2022-12-19

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Summary

This is a quasi-experimental before and after intervention study taking place in the level III NICU of Turku University Hospital in Finland to evaluate the effects of the Couplet Care, a care model which provides maternal and infant care in the same room even when intensive care of the infant is needed. The investigators will prospectively collect data after starting Couplet Care. The pre-intervention data was already collected during 2018 and 2019 as a part of the 2nd International Closeness Survey.

Conditions

  • Early Skin-to-skin Contact
  • Psychological Distress
  • Parenting
  • Preterm Infant

Interventions

OTHER

Couplet Care

In the Couplet Care model, the parents are provided access to the infant stabilisation room and encouragement for early skin-to-skin contact, mothers receive their postpartum care in the same NICU room with the infant, and fathers/partners also have a bed in the same NICU room.

Sponsors & Collaborators

  • Turku University Hospital

    lead OTHER_GOV

Principal Investigators

  • Liisa Lehtonen, MD · Turku University Hospital

Eligibility

Sex
ALL
Healthy Volunteers
No

Timeline & Regulatory

Start
2023-01-31
Primary Completion
2023-06-30
Completion
2023-12-31

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