A digital intervention trial targeting stress for parents and caregivers with premature babies in the neonatal intensive care unit (NICU)
- Conditions
- DepressionStressAnxietyMental Health - Other mental health disordersMental Health - AnxietyMental Health - Depression
- Registration Number
- ACTRN12623000641695
- Lead Sponsor
- niversity of Auckland
- Brief Summary
Not available
- Detailed Description
Not available
Recruitment & Eligibility
- Status
- Recruiting
- Sex
- All
- Target Recruitment
- 102
Inclusion criteria for participants will include:
(1) parents and caregivers (mothers, fathers, whanau/extended family members) who are routinely in the NICU and are 16 years or older and
(2) can understand English;
(3) and whose babies are born at less than 32-week gestation,
(4) are less than 1 week old, and
(5) have an expected admission of at least 2 weeks or more at Starship Child Health NICU.
Exclusion criteria for participants will include:
(1) severe mental health disorder (i.e. psychosis) requiring in-patient care, and participants whose babies are
(2) likely to die in the first week of admission or have died before randomisation,
(3) have severe congenital anomalies that require surgery or impact longer term development or health outcomes and will therefore require specialized support and/or
(4) are triplets or more.
Study & Design
- Study Type
- Interventional
- Study Design
- Not specified
- Primary Outcome Measures
Name Time Method Parental/caregiver stress in the NICU, measured by the Parental Stressor Scale: NICU (PSS:NICU) (Turner et al, 2015)[ Baseline, 2-weeks post-randomisation, and at discharge.]
- Secondary Outcome Measures
Name Time Method