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Prospective Randomized Observational Pilot Trial Evaluating the Effect of Information of Early Childhood Intervention on Stress Levels of Parents of Extremely Low Gestational Age Infants at the NICU

It is not known to what extent early information on early childhood intervention (ECI) by ECI professionals reduces or increases stress levels of parents having an extremely preterm infant at the neonatal intensive care unit (NICU). Using an observational pilot study, we gave information on ECI in a...

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Autores principales: Resch, Bernhard, Fröhlich, Judith, Murg, Katharina, Pichler-Stachl, Elisabeth, Hofbauer-Krug, Claudia, Kurz, Ronald
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Publicado: Frontiers Media S.A. 2021
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8454777/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/34557465
http://dx.doi.org/10.3389/fpubh.2021.684369
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author Resch, Bernhard
Fröhlich, Judith
Murg, Katharina
Pichler-Stachl, Elisabeth
Hofbauer-Krug, Claudia
Kurz, Ronald
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Fröhlich, Judith
Murg, Katharina
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description It is not known to what extent early information on early childhood intervention (ECI) by ECI professionals reduces or increases stress levels of parents having an extremely preterm infant at the neonatal intensive care unit (NICU). Using an observational pilot study, we gave information on ECI in a randomized matter to parents of an extremely low gestational age newborn (ELGAN) at the chronological age of 3–4 weeks (cases) or not (controls). After informed consent, parents judged the infants at the age of 5–7 weeks with the Parental Stressor Scales: Neonatal Intensive Care Unit [PSS: NICU test has three subscales = “Sights and Sounds” (five items), “Parental Role Alteration” (14 items), and “Look and Behave” (seven items)]. Total scales score and subscales scores were comparable between 13 cases and 13 controls over a study period of 1.5 years. Total scores were 9.32 ± 0.72 in the cases compared to 10.02 ± 0.76 in the controls, (95% CI −6.93 to 4.93). Overall, the cases scored lower in most of the items. Early information on ECI at the NICU was provided to parents with an ELGAN did not result in higher stress levels measured with the PSS: NICU. Whether early information on ECI is a strategy, which might be able to reduce parental stress levels, has to be proven in larger studies.
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spelling pubmed-84547772021-09-22 Prospective Randomized Observational Pilot Trial Evaluating the Effect of Information of Early Childhood Intervention on Stress Levels of Parents of Extremely Low Gestational Age Infants at the NICU Resch, Bernhard Fröhlich, Judith Murg, Katharina Pichler-Stachl, Elisabeth Hofbauer-Krug, Claudia Kurz, Ronald Front Public Health Public Health It is not known to what extent early information on early childhood intervention (ECI) by ECI professionals reduces or increases stress levels of parents having an extremely preterm infant at the neonatal intensive care unit (NICU). Using an observational pilot study, we gave information on ECI in a randomized matter to parents of an extremely low gestational age newborn (ELGAN) at the chronological age of 3–4 weeks (cases) or not (controls). After informed consent, parents judged the infants at the age of 5–7 weeks with the Parental Stressor Scales: Neonatal Intensive Care Unit [PSS: NICU test has three subscales = “Sights and Sounds” (five items), “Parental Role Alteration” (14 items), and “Look and Behave” (seven items)]. Total scales score and subscales scores were comparable between 13 cases and 13 controls over a study period of 1.5 years. Total scores were 9.32 ± 0.72 in the cases compared to 10.02 ± 0.76 in the controls, (95% CI −6.93 to 4.93). Overall, the cases scored lower in most of the items. Early information on ECI at the NICU was provided to parents with an ELGAN did not result in higher stress levels measured with the PSS: NICU. Whether early information on ECI is a strategy, which might be able to reduce parental stress levels, has to be proven in larger studies. Frontiers Media S.A. 2021-09-07 /pmc/articles/PMC8454777/ /pubmed/34557465 http://dx.doi.org/10.3389/fpubh.2021.684369 Text en Copyright © 2021 Resch, Fröhlich, Murg, Pichler-Stachl, Hofbauer-Krug and Kurz. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (CC BY). The use, distribution or reproduction in other forums is permitted, provided the original author(s) and the copyright owner(s) are credited and that the original publication in this journal is cited, in accordance with accepted academic practice. No use, distribution or reproduction is permitted which does not comply with these terms.
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Resch, Bernhard
Fröhlich, Judith
Murg, Katharina
Pichler-Stachl, Elisabeth
Hofbauer-Krug, Claudia
Kurz, Ronald
Prospective Randomized Observational Pilot Trial Evaluating the Effect of Information of Early Childhood Intervention on Stress Levels of Parents of Extremely Low Gestational Age Infants at the NICU
title Prospective Randomized Observational Pilot Trial Evaluating the Effect of Information of Early Childhood Intervention on Stress Levels of Parents of Extremely Low Gestational Age Infants at the NICU
title_full Prospective Randomized Observational Pilot Trial Evaluating the Effect of Information of Early Childhood Intervention on Stress Levels of Parents of Extremely Low Gestational Age Infants at the NICU
title_fullStr Prospective Randomized Observational Pilot Trial Evaluating the Effect of Information of Early Childhood Intervention on Stress Levels of Parents of Extremely Low Gestational Age Infants at the NICU
title_full_unstemmed Prospective Randomized Observational Pilot Trial Evaluating the Effect of Information of Early Childhood Intervention on Stress Levels of Parents of Extremely Low Gestational Age Infants at the NICU
title_short Prospective Randomized Observational Pilot Trial Evaluating the Effect of Information of Early Childhood Intervention on Stress Levels of Parents of Extremely Low Gestational Age Infants at the NICU
title_sort prospective randomized observational pilot trial evaluating the effect of information of early childhood intervention on stress levels of parents of extremely low gestational age infants at the nicu
topic Public Health
url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8454777/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/34557465
http://dx.doi.org/10.3389/fpubh.2021.684369
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