Premature Infant
Conditions
Keywords
Premature Infant,Motor Development,Social-Communication Development,Parental Stress,Online Education
Brief summary
Our study aim to evaluate the effect of online program that provides education to parents of premature infants in which stayed in the neonatal intensive care units (NICU),in their motor,socail-communişcation development and the parents stress level.
Detailed description
Our study aim to increase the level f knowledge of the parents of premature infants that stayed in the NICU,to better manage their stress and to provide them with informations to support the motor and social-communication development of their infants.
Interventions
The training we provided was to give exercises and advice to parents according to the age of the baby in order to stimulate the motor and social development of the baby,and then, an improvement in the stress state of the parents by their participation in the care of their baby.The training, which began with the discharge of the baby from the hospital, was in the form of slide presentations and videos.
OTHERno online education program
Parents and their infants in the control group did not receive any online education program
Sponsors
Marmara University
Study design
Allocation
RANDOMIZED
Intervention model
PARALLEL
Primary purpose
SUPPORTIVE_CARE
Masking
DOUBLE (Subject, Caregiver)
Eligibility
Sex/Gender
ALL
Age
0 Months to 8 Months
Healthy volunteers
Yes
Inclusion criteria
* infants Stayed in the neonatal intensive care unit for some time after premature birth for the purpose of care and treatment. * Being a premature baby born at or under 32 weeks * infant corrected age between 0-8 months * To agree to participate in the study.
Exclusion criteria
* Having a concomitant major anomaly and genetic disease * The fact that the family did not accept the evaluation of their baby in motor and social-communication area at sixth month of the study.
Design outcomes
Primary
| Measure | Time frame | Description |
|---|---|---|
| Alberta Infant Motor Scale (AIMS) | Premature infant motor development was assessed one time by AIMS at their 6 month corrected age | AIMS assesses the gross infant motor skills in supine, prone, sitting and standing positions with 58 items.the child is scored dec 0 to 58 points and evaluated with age-appropriate percentile curves:0-10 atypical development, 11-25 questionable performance, 26-75 normal performance, 76-90 very good performance, 91-100 are classified as excellent performance. |
| The Social-Communication Area Screening Test of İnfant (SCASI) | Premature infant social-communication development was assessed one time by SCASI at their 6 month corrected age. | SCASI assesses the social-communication infant skills,filled by the parents.it is an original and fast test for the early identification and evaluation of children at developmental risk in infancy and early childhood up to the age of 6-24 months. |
Secondary
| Measure | Time frame | Description |
|---|---|---|
| Parenting Stress Index, Fourth Edition Short Form (PSI-4-SF) | Parents stress level was assessed one time by PSI-4-SF at their infant 6 month corrected age. | PSI-4-SF assesses the parents stress level.PSI-4-SF contains 36 items: 12 items for Parental Stress (PS) , 12 items for Parent-Child dysfonctional Interaction (P-CDI), and 12 items for Difficult Child (DC).The normal range for scores is within the 16th to 84th percentiles.Scores in the 85th to 89th percentile are considered high,and scores in the 90th percentile or higher are considered clinically significant. |
Countries
Turkey (Türkiye)
Outcome results
None listed