Association Between the Support of NICU Team and Subjective Health of Parents

Completed

• Conditions: Conditions Influencing Health Status
• Interventions: Other: Questionaire

• Registration Number: NCT01006928
• Lead Sponsor: Hillel Yaffe Medical Center

Brief Summary

Preterm birth is a traumatic event for parents. They cope with threatening and unfamiliar environment of hospital, losing the parental role, and frustration. The NICU team is the main support source for these parents. Support and providing information are most important for parents, as they can have some control, involvement and self confidence during the hospitalization, and also feel healthier. The hypothesis of this study is that better support to parents lead to better subjective health feeling by them.

The study will be held among mothers to infants in NICU who are at least 7 days old. The study will use a questionaire to assess the subjective health feeling and the estimation of the support from the team. Sample size is about 150 mothers.

Detailed Description

Preterm birth is a traumatic event for parents. They cope with threatening and unfamiliar environment of hospital, losing the parental role, and frustration. The NICU team is the main support source for these parents. Support and providing information are most important for parents, as they can have some control, involvement and self confidence during the hospitalization, and also feel healthier. The hypothesis of this study is that better support to parents lead to better subjective health feeling by them.

The study will be held among mothers to infants in NICU who are at least 7 days old. The study will use a questionaire to assess the subjective health feeling and the estimation of the support from the team. Sample size is about 150 mothers.

Study Timeline

• Study First Submitted: 2009-11-01
• Study First Submitted QC: 2009-11-02
• Study First Posted: 2009-11-03
• Study Start: 2009-12
• Primary Completion: 2010-06
• Study Completion: 2010-06
• Status Verified: 2011-06
• Last Update Submitted: 2011-06-05
• Last Update Posted: 2011-06-08

Recruitment & Eligibility

• Status: COMPLETED
• Sex: All
• Target Recruitment: 150

Inclusion Criteria

• Mothers to preterm infants in NICU

Exclusion Criteria

• Mothers to Infants in NICU who are not preterm
• Mothers to Infants in NICU who died during hospitalization
• Mothers to Infants in NICU who were transferred to another hospital during hospitalization

Study & Design

• Study Type: OBSERVATIONAL
• Study Design: Not specified

Arm && Interventions

Group	Intervention	Description
Mothers	Questionaire	Mother of infants in NICU

Primary Outcome Measures

Name	Time	Method
Good subjective health feeling of mother.	6 months

Trial Locations

Locations (1)

Hillel Yaffe medical center; 🇮🇱 Hadera, Israel