Collaborating to improve neonatale care: Parental participation on the neonatal ward - the neoPartner study

Collaborating to improve neonatale care: Parental participation on the neonatal ward - the neoPartner study - The neoPARTNER study

Status

Active, not recruiting

Phases

Unknown

Study type

Observational

Source

NL-OMON

Registry ID

NL-OMON55894

Enrollment

1800

Registered

2021-12-06

Start date

2022-03-07

Completion date

Unknown

Last updated

2025-09-01

For informational purposes only — not medical advice. Sourced from public registries and may not reflect the latest updates. Terms

Conditions

neonatal care

Interventions

The intervention will consist of parental participation in medical rounds&nbsp

(FCR). Parents and healthcare professionals will be supported by the four&nbsp

pillars of FICare: parent education, education of healthcare professionals,&nbsp

psychosocial support and environment of the neonatal ward.

Eligibility

Age

No minimum to 64 Years

Inclusion criteria

Inclusion criteria: - infant requiring hospital admission directly (within 24 hours) after birth - parents of 18 years or older

Exclusion criteria

Exclusion criteria: - Infant*s hospital stay shorter than 7 days; - Infant with severe congenital or syndromal anomaly; - Infant with critical illness who is unlikely to survive; - Parent with current psychosocial problems (such as posttraumatic stress  disorder, schizophrenia or psychotic disorders) with or without medication  which have not been stable over the past year; - Involvement of child protective services in the family; - Parent not able or not willing to fill out questionnaires in English or  Dutch.

Design outcomes

Primary

Measure	Time frame
The main outcome is parental stress at discharge, as defined by the total score on the Parental Stress Scale (PSS:NICU). The PSS:NICU is a three-dimensional tool, in which parents express the amount of stress they experienced by rating 26 items on a 5-point Likert scale (not stressful at all to extremely stressful).	—

Secondary

Measure	Time frame
Secondary outcome measures on the individual level will be parent participation in neonatal care, parent-infant bonding and experiences in shared decision making. The longitudinal course of parental mental health (anxiety, depression, posttraumatic stress) will be analyzed, as well as biomarkers of stress (in saliva, hair and breastmilk) and breastmilk composition. Also, neonatal secondary outcome measures will be taken into account, specifically length of stay, breastfeeding rates at discharge, biomarkers of stress in saliva, methylation rate of glucocorticoid receptors (from buccal mucosa) and growth. On the cluster level we will study professional secondary outcome measures such as work engagement and autonomy.	—

Measure

Time frame

Secondary outcome measures on the individual level will be parent participation in neonatal care, parent-infant bonding and experiences in shared decision making. The longitudinal course of parental mental health (anxiety, depression, posttraumatic stress) will be analyzed, as well as biomarkers of stress (in saliva, hair and breastmilk) and breastmilk composition. Also, neonatal secondary outcome measures will be taken into account, specifically length of stay, breastfeeding rates at discharge, biomarkers of stress in saliva, methylation rate of glucocorticoid receptors (from buccal mucosa) and growth. On the cluster level we will study professional secondary outcome measures such as work engagement and autonomy.

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Countries

Netherlands

Outcome results

None listed

Source: NL-OMON (via WHO ICTRP)