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Neonatal Pictures in a NICU as a Mode of Nursing Intervention to Enhance Parent-Infant Bonding: Parents’ Experience during the COVID Pandemic

Introduction: Neonatal departments around the world have changed their policies to prevent the spread of infection during the COVID-19 pandemic. The birth of an extremely premature baby can disrupt physical contact between the mother/parent and the baby. This situation affects the bonding process be...

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Autores principales: Aftyka, Anna, Rybojad, Beata, Mędrzycka-Dąbrowska, Wioletta
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: MDPI 2023
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9958686/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/36834269
http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/ijerph20043576
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author Aftyka, Anna
Rybojad, Beata
Mędrzycka-Dąbrowska, Wioletta
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description Introduction: Neonatal departments around the world have changed their policies to prevent the spread of infection during the COVID-19 pandemic. The birth of an extremely premature baby can disrupt physical contact between the mother/parent and the baby. This situation affects the bonding process between mother and child. The aim of the study was to investigate the opinions of parents who receive photographs or videos of their children electronically on the usefulness of this intervention, as well as the emotional reaction of parents to the photos or videos received, and potential ways to improve the intervention. Methods: The study used a qualitative approach and relied on phenomenology, which is a research method used to study experience as experienced from the subjective point of view. Pilot interviews were conducted in January and February 2021, and the final study ran from March to June 2021. Results: The uploaded photographs and videos provided a useful communication tool. The parents’ emotions at the proposal to send photographs of the child and while viewing the first photographs were strong and marked by considerable ambivalence. Conclusions: This study showed how important it is to ensure communication between the parent and the medical staff. Despite the positive reception, in the future obtaining consent from the legal guardian for taking pictures should be considered, whether this form will be accepted, and to ensure the presence of medical staff while the parent is watching the photographs/videos, as this method of communication will not fully ensure direct skin-to-skin contact to build bonds between the parent and the infant. Neonatal intensive care units need to find strategies to mitigate the impact of separation on parental experiences and bonds should a similar situation arise in the future.
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spelling pubmed-99586862023-02-26 Neonatal Pictures in a NICU as a Mode of Nursing Intervention to Enhance Parent-Infant Bonding: Parents’ Experience during the COVID Pandemic Aftyka, Anna Rybojad, Beata Mędrzycka-Dąbrowska, Wioletta Int J Environ Res Public Health Article Introduction: Neonatal departments around the world have changed their policies to prevent the spread of infection during the COVID-19 pandemic. The birth of an extremely premature baby can disrupt physical contact between the mother/parent and the baby. This situation affects the bonding process between mother and child. The aim of the study was to investigate the opinions of parents who receive photographs or videos of their children electronically on the usefulness of this intervention, as well as the emotional reaction of parents to the photos or videos received, and potential ways to improve the intervention. Methods: The study used a qualitative approach and relied on phenomenology, which is a research method used to study experience as experienced from the subjective point of view. Pilot interviews were conducted in January and February 2021, and the final study ran from March to June 2021. Results: The uploaded photographs and videos provided a useful communication tool. The parents’ emotions at the proposal to send photographs of the child and while viewing the first photographs were strong and marked by considerable ambivalence. Conclusions: This study showed how important it is to ensure communication between the parent and the medical staff. Despite the positive reception, in the future obtaining consent from the legal guardian for taking pictures should be considered, whether this form will be accepted, and to ensure the presence of medical staff while the parent is watching the photographs/videos, as this method of communication will not fully ensure direct skin-to-skin contact to build bonds between the parent and the infant. Neonatal intensive care units need to find strategies to mitigate the impact of separation on parental experiences and bonds should a similar situation arise in the future. MDPI 2023-02-17 /pmc/articles/PMC9958686/ /pubmed/36834269 http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/ijerph20043576 Text en © 2023 by the authors. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/Licensee MDPI, Basel, Switzerland. This article is an open access article distributed under the terms and conditions of the Creative Commons Attribution (CC BY) license (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/).
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title Neonatal Pictures in a NICU as a Mode of Nursing Intervention to Enhance Parent-Infant Bonding: Parents’ Experience during the COVID Pandemic
title_full Neonatal Pictures in a NICU as a Mode of Nursing Intervention to Enhance Parent-Infant Bonding: Parents’ Experience during the COVID Pandemic
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title_full_unstemmed Neonatal Pictures in a NICU as a Mode of Nursing Intervention to Enhance Parent-Infant Bonding: Parents’ Experience during the COVID Pandemic
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url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9958686/
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http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/ijerph20043576
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