Quality of Life stress
Conditions
Interventions
Group 1: Parents of premature and/or sick newborns in the neonatal intensive care unit
Assessment of the quality of life of the parents 14 days, 6, 12 and 24 months postpartum
PARCA-R's parental asse
24 months postnatal
additionally for healthy newborns: developmental neurological examination (Bayley III)
Baseline 14 days, 6, 12, 24 months postnatal: age, gender, education and relationship status of the parents as we
Sponsors
Universitätsmedizin Mainz, Abteilung Neonatologie
Eligibility
Sex/Gender
All
Inclusion criteria
Inclusion criteria: Cohort of premature babies: stay on NICU = 14 days Cohort of the term infants: stay at the weekly ward = 24 hours
Exclusion criteria
Exclusion criteria: Lack of knowledge of German; basic mental illness of parents; Transfer of the child; Death of the child; Multiple births; Children in the control group who are treated in hospital 28 days before their life
Design outcomes
Primary
| Measure | Time frame |
|---|---|
| Parental quality of life Hypothesis: The health-related quality of life of parents of newborns who received inpatient medical treatment for 14 days or longer is 6 months after birth lower than that of parents whose children were discharged from the maternity hospital after 1 to 3 days of life without medical treatment. Health-related quality of life is recorded using the Pediatric Quality of Life InventoryTM (PedsQLTM) questionnaire (Family Impact Module), which is divided into 8 areas. These include physical, emotional, social, cognitive, communicative, fear-related, family and job-related aspects. The Family Impact Module is an extension of the PedsQLTM questionnaire by Varni et al. (1998). For application in the German-speaking world, Felder-Puig et al. 2003 the validation of the German-language PedsQLTM related to cancer and epilepsy by (Felder-Puig et al., 2004). There is an official German version of the questionnaire and associated module on family impact. Assessment 14 days, 6,12,24 months after birth | — |
Secondary
| Measure | Time frame |
|---|---|
| 1. The stress level of parents of newborns who received inpatient medical treatment for 14 days or longer 2. Satisfaction with medical treatment (when discharged after inpatient treatment) 3. Development / tendency of the quality of life 4. Assessment of parental competence 5. Social / family situation 6. Financial and occupational burden as well as gender differences 7. The development of newborns who received inpatient medical treatment for 14 days or longer compared to healthy newborns to 1. Score in the PSS: NICU_German / 2-scales questionnaire after 14 (10-21) days postpartum 2. Questionnaire on satisfaction with medical treatment (on discharge) 3. Parental quality of life: PedsQLTM (module family impact) after 14 (10-21) days and 6 (5-7), 12 (10-14), 24 (20-28) months postpartum 4. Subjective assessment of parental competence: PSOC questionnaire after 6 (5-7), 12 (10-14), 24 (20-28) months postpartum 5.Baseline questionnaire on social and professional situation 14 (10-21) days and 6 (5-7), 12 (10-14), 24 (20-28) months postpartum 6. See 5. 7. Developmental neurological status 24 (20-28) months postnatally (Bayley III and PARCA-R) for in-patient children and PARCA-R for non-in-patient children | — |
Countries
Germany
Contacts
Public ContactMascha Schönfeld
Universitätsmedizin Mainz, Abteilung Neonatologie
Outcome results
None listed