NCT05521620

A Father-friendly Neonatal Intensive Care Unit

What Effect Does a Father-friendly NICU Have on Children, Parents, and Staff?

• Status: Completed
• Phase: N/A
• Study type: Interventional
• Enrollment: 500 (actual)
• Sponsor: Kolding Sygehus · Academic / Other
• Sex: All
• Age: —
• Healthy volunteers: Not accepted

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.

Detailed description

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. The study was conducted in 3 steps 1. A baseline measurement 2. Development and implementation of the intervention a father friendly NICU 3. After measurement Different questionnaires were used: * The Parental Stressor Scale: Neonatal Intensive Care Unit (PSS:NICU) * The Nurse Parent Support Tool (NPST) * A questionnaire intended to measure nurses self-efficacy (SE). The study was approved by the Danish Data Protection Agency (No 19/20297) and the procedures were in accordance with the Helsinki Declaration. In accordance with the Danish law, this study did not need to be reviewed by an ethics committee.

Conditions

• Stress
• Self Efficacy
• Perception, Self

Interventions

Type	Name	Description
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

Timeline

• Start date: 2011-12-01
• Primary completion: 2015-01-31
• Completion: 2021-02-11
• First posted: 2022-08-30
• Last updated: 2022-08-31

Locations

1 site across 1 country: Denmark