A Father-friendly Neonatal Intensive Care Unit

NCT ID: NCT05521620

Last Updated: 2022-08-31

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Basic Information

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Recruitment Status

COMPLETED

Clinical Phase

NA

Total Enrollment

500 participants

Study Classification

INTERVENTIONAL

Study Start Date

2011-12-01

Study Completion Date

2021-02-11

Brief Summary

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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

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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

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Stress Self Efficacy Perception, Self

Keywords

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Father Intensive Care Units, Neonatal Parental support Stress Self-efficacy Mothers Nurse Participatory reseach Masculinity

Study Design

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Allocation Method

NON_RANDOMIZED

Intervention Model

SEQUENTIAL

A before- and-after intervention study
Primary Study Purpose

SUPPORTIVE_CARE

Blinding Strategy

NONE

Study Groups

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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

Group Type ACTIVE_COMPARATOR

The father-friendly NICU

Intervention Type BEHAVIORAL

* 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

No Father-friendly NICU (baseline)

Baseline - before implementation of the intervention

Group Type NO_INTERVENTION

No interventions assigned to this group

Interventions

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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

Intervention Type BEHAVIORAL

Eligibility Criteria

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Inclusion Criteria

* fathers/mothers with infants admitted to the NICU were eligible
* nurses who work in Danish NICUs

Exclusion Criteria

* fathers/mothers who did not understand verbal and written Danish
* fathers/mothers of critically ill newborn infants
* fathers of newborn infants whose mother was critically ill
* fathers/mothers of newborn infants admitted to the NICU from home.
* nurses without patient-contact, on maternity- or long-term sickness-leave
Eligible Sex

ALL

Accepts Healthy Volunteers

No

Sponsors

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Kolding Sygehus

OTHER

Sponsor Role lead

Responsible Party

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Betty Nørgaard

Principal Investigator

Responsibility Role PRINCIPAL_INVESTIGATOR

Principal Investigators

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Betty Noergaard, Ph.d

Role: PRINCIPAL_INVESTIGATOR

Department of Paediatrics and Adolescent Medicine, Lillebaelt Hospital,Kolding

Locations

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Department of Paediatrics and Adolescent Medicine at the University Hospital of Southern Denmark, Kolding

Kolding, , Denmark

Site Status

Countries

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Denmark

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Other Identifiers

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19/20297

Identifier Type: -

Identifier Source: org_study_id