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Factors affecting infant's transition from neonatal intensive care unit to home: A qualitative study

BACKGROUND: The infants, hospitalized in the neonatal intensive care unit (NICU), engage with problems from admission to discharge, exploring of which ensures their safe transition. The purpose of this study was to identify the factors that influence infant's transition from the NICU to home. M...

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Autores principales: Valizadeh, Leila, Namnabati, Mahboobeh, Zamanzadeh, Vahid, Badiee, Zohreh
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Publicado: Medknow Publications & Meida Pvt Ltd 2013
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3748559/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/23983732
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author Valizadeh, Leila
Namnabati, Mahboobeh
Zamanzadeh, Vahid
Badiee, Zohreh
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Namnabati, Mahboobeh
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description BACKGROUND: The infants, hospitalized in the neonatal intensive care unit (NICU), engage with problems from admission to discharge, exploring of which ensures their safe transition. The purpose of this study was to identify the factors that influence infant's transition from the NICU to home. MATERIALS AND METHODS: A qualitative study was used for identifying the factors that affect infant's transition. Data were gathered by interviewing 16 nurses and physicians in NICUs of university hospitals in Iran; and were analyzed by qualitative content analysis method. MAXQDA, MAX Qualitative Data Analysis, is a software which has been developed in Berlin, Germany. software, the qualitative data analysis package, was used for coding and categorizing. RESULTS: There are 10 categories that affect infant's transition, as revealed in data analysis. These categories were delineated into three themes: Cognition of infant's needs, effectiveness of trainings, and organizational context. CONCLUSION: The results of this study further disclosed the factors that facilitate or hinder infant's transition from the NICU to home. The aspects of correct cognition along with more effective trainings must be fully introduced to the staff to meet infant's needs. Also, authorities are better to make policies to decrease organizational barriers. Therefore, it is suggested that applying developmental care can ease infant's transition.
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spelling pubmed-37485592013-08-27 Factors affecting infant's transition from neonatal intensive care unit to home: A qualitative study Valizadeh, Leila Namnabati, Mahboobeh Zamanzadeh, Vahid Badiee, Zohreh Iran J Nurs Midwifery Res Original Article BACKGROUND: The infants, hospitalized in the neonatal intensive care unit (NICU), engage with problems from admission to discharge, exploring of which ensures their safe transition. The purpose of this study was to identify the factors that influence infant's transition from the NICU to home. MATERIALS AND METHODS: A qualitative study was used for identifying the factors that affect infant's transition. Data were gathered by interviewing 16 nurses and physicians in NICUs of university hospitals in Iran; and were analyzed by qualitative content analysis method. MAXQDA, MAX Qualitative Data Analysis, is a software which has been developed in Berlin, Germany. software, the qualitative data analysis package, was used for coding and categorizing. RESULTS: There are 10 categories that affect infant's transition, as revealed in data analysis. These categories were delineated into three themes: Cognition of infant's needs, effectiveness of trainings, and organizational context. CONCLUSION: The results of this study further disclosed the factors that facilitate or hinder infant's transition from the NICU to home. The aspects of correct cognition along with more effective trainings must be fully introduced to the staff to meet infant's needs. Also, authorities are better to make policies to decrease organizational barriers. Therefore, it is suggested that applying developmental care can ease infant's transition. Medknow Publications & Meida Pvt Ltd 2013 /pmc/articles/PMC3748559/ /pubmed/23983732 Text en Copyright: © Iranian Journal of Nursing and Midwifery Research http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/3.0 This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-Share Alike 3.0 Unported, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
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Badiee, Zohreh
Factors affecting infant's transition from neonatal intensive care unit to home: A qualitative study
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title_full Factors affecting infant's transition from neonatal intensive care unit to home: A qualitative study
title_fullStr Factors affecting infant's transition from neonatal intensive care unit to home: A qualitative study
title_full_unstemmed Factors affecting infant's transition from neonatal intensive care unit to home: A qualitative study
title_short Factors affecting infant's transition from neonatal intensive care unit to home: A qualitative study
title_sort factors affecting infant's transition from neonatal intensive care unit to home: a qualitative study
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url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3748559/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/23983732
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