Conditions Influencing Health Status
Conditions
Keywords
Subjective health feeling, NICU, team support
Brief summary
Preterm birth is a traumatic event for parents. They cope with threatening and unfamiliar environment of hospital, losing the parental role, and frustration. The NICU team is the main support source for these parents. Support and providing information are most important for parents, as they can have some control, involvement and self confidence during the hospitalization, and also feel healthier. The hypothesis of this study is that better support to parents lead to better subjective health feeling by them. The study will be held among mothers to infants in NICU who are at least 7 days old. The study will use a questionaire to assess the subjective health feeling and the estimation of the support from the team. Sample size is about 150 mothers.
Detailed description
Preterm birth is a traumatic event for parents. They cope with threatening and unfamiliar environment of hospital, losing the parental role, and frustration. The NICU team is the main support source for these parents. Support and providing information are most important for parents, as they can have some control, involvement and self confidence during the hospitalization, and also feel healthier. The hypothesis of this study is that better support to parents lead to better subjective health feeling by them. The study will be held among mothers to infants in NICU who are at least 7 days old. The study will use a questionaire to assess the subjective health feeling and the estimation of the support from the team. Sample size is about 150 mothers.
Interventions
OTHERQuestionaire
Questionaire to mothers
Sponsors
Hillel Yaffe Medical Center
Study design
Observational model
CASE_ONLY
Time perspective
CROSS_SECTIONAL
Eligibility
Sex/Gender
ALL
Age
No minimum to 60 Years
Healthy volunteers
Yes
Inclusion criteria
* Mothers to preterm infants in NICU
Exclusion criteria
* Mothers to Infants in NICU who are not preterm * Mothers to Infants in NICU who died during hospitalization * Mothers to Infants in NICU who were transferred to another hospital during hospitalization
Design outcomes
Primary
| Measure | Time frame |
|---|---|
| Good subjective health feeling of mother. | 6 months |
Countries
Israel
Outcome results
None listed