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A Study of Family-integrated Care for Reducing Uncertainty

Not Applicable
Recruiting
Conditions
Premature Infant
Interventions
Behavioral: family-integrated care
Behavioral: traditional nursing
Registration Number
NCT04648787
Lead Sponsor
Children's Hospital of Fudan University
Brief Summary

To explore the intervention effect of family participatory nursing on the uncertainty of illness of parents of hospitalized premature infants, and to evaluate the uncertainty level of parents of premature infants in different stages. The study will be described the feeling of parents of premature infants after family participation nursing through interview. We will provide support for families of premature infants, and then to provide support for growth and development of premature infants.

Detailed Description

Most of the current management mode of restricting or forbidding visiting in neonatology, parents can not establish the perception of premature infants and lack of communication with medical staff, which will lead to negative emotions represented by uncertainty of disease.The research on uncertainty of disease started late in China, mostly used in tumor, epilepsy and congenital heart disease. The research on parents of NICU children mostly focused on the analysis of influencing factors of uncertainty of disease, lacking intervention research, and the measures were only the information support mode based on health education. We want to explore the intervention effect of family participatory nursing on the uncertainty of illness of parents of hospitalized premature infants, and to evaluate the uncertainty level of parents of premature infants in different stages. Describe the feeling of parents of premature infants after family participation nursing through interview. We will provide support for families of premature infants, and then to provide support for growth and development of premature infants.

Recruitment & Eligibility

Status
RECRUITING
Sex
All
Target Recruitment
70
Inclusion Criteria

Children:

  • 32 weeks < gestational age < 37 weeks
  • Birth weight ≤ 2500g
  • Apgar score > 7
  • Transferred to our hospital within 8 hours after birth

Parents:

  • Have normal communication ability and understanding ability
  • Agreed to participate in this study
Exclusion Criteria

Children:

-With serious life-threatening diseases, the neonatal critical cases score (discussion draft) was rated as "extremely critical"

Parents:

-There are serious diseases or major negative events in the family (such as traffic accidents, natural disasters, etc.)

Study & Design

Study Type
INTERVENTIONAL
Study Design
PARALLEL
Arm && Interventions
GroupInterventionDescription
Intervention group: traditional nursing with family-integrated carefamily-integrated caretraditional nursing with family-integrated care
Control group: traditional nursingtraditional nursingtraditional nursing
Primary Outcome Measures
NameTimeMethod
The total Scores of PPUS(Parents' Perception of Uncertainty Scale )from adminssion to discharge (almostly 14 hospitalization days )

The scale is one of a series of uncertainty scales developed by Mishel in 1998 under the guidance of uncertainty theory of disease, which is one of the series of uncertainty scales for different groups of people. Its content includes 4 dimensions, 31 items, unclear (13 items), complexity (9 items), lack of information (5 items), and unpredictable (4 items). It includes one score from 4 dimensions adding. The score is much higher, the parents maybe feel more uncertainty.According to the response of the responders, from "completely disagree" to "completely agree", the total score is "31-155". The higher the score is, the stronger the uncertainty of the disease is. When the total score is more than 50% of the highest score, the responders are considered to have higher uncertainty of the disease.

Secondary Outcome Measures
NameTimeMethod
The Scores of Family satisfactionThe 30th day after discharge.

Likert 5-point method was used to score, that is, 2 = very dissatisfied, 4 = dissatisfied, 6 = average, 8 = satisfied and 10 = very satisfied. The satisfaction level of each question was quantified by scoring.satisfied, satisfied and very satisfied with the score of inpatient satisfaction in the total number of discharged children.

Trial Locations

Locations (1)

Children's Hospital of Fudan University

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Shanghai, Shanghai, China

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