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An educational-behavioural intervention for parents of preterm infants reduced parental stress in the NICU and infant length of stay

https://doi.org/10.1136/ebn.10.2.41

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    Melnyk BM, Feinstein NF, Alpert-Gillis L, et al. Reducing premature infants’ length of stay and improving parents’ mental health outcomes with the Creating Opportunities for Parent Empowerment (COPE) neonatal intensive care unit program: a randomized, controlled trial. Pediatrics 2006;118:e1414–27.OpenUrlAbstract/FREE Full Text

    Q Does an educational-behavioural intervention for parents of premature infants improve parent-infant interactions and parental mental health and reduce infant length of stay in the neonatal intensive care unit (NICU)?

    METHODS

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    randomised controlled trial (Creating Opportunities for Parent Empowerment [COPE] NICU programme).

    Embedded ImageAllocation:

    unclear.

    Embedded ImageBlinding:

    blinded (primary care nurses and outcome assessors of parent-infant interactions).

    Embedded ImageFollow up period:

    2 months corrected infant age.

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    2 NICUs in Syracuse and Rochester, New York, USA.

    Embedded ImageParticipants:

    258 mothers (mean age 28 y) and 154 fathers/significant others (mean age 31 y) ⩾18 years of age (260 families) who could read and speak English, had not had another infant admitted to the NICU, and who had singleton infants (52% girls) born at the study sites with a gestational age of 26–34 weeks (mean 31 wks), birth weight <2500 g (mean 1650 g) and appropriate for …

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    Footnotes

    • For correspondence: Dr B M Melnyk, Arizona State University College of Nursing, Phoenix, AZ, USA. bernadette.melnyk{at}asu.edu

    • Source of funding: National Institutes of Health/National Institute of Nursing Research.