Parent psychological wellbeing in a single-family room versus an open bay neonatal intensive care unit
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Date
2019Metadata
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Abstract
Background
Studies of parents’ psychological well-being in single-family rooms in neonatal intensive
care units have shown conflicting results.
Aims
To compare emotional distress in the form of depression, anxiety, stress and attachment
scores among parents of very preterm infants cared for in a single-family rooms unit vs an
open bay unit.
Study design
Prospective survey design.
Subject
Parents (132) of 77 infants born at 28 0/7–32 0/7 weeks of gestation in the two units.
Outcome measures
Duration of parental presence was recorded. Scores for depression (The Edinburgh Postnatal Depression Scale), anxiety (The State–Trait–Anxiety Inventory, Short Form Y), stress (The Parent Stressor Scale: neonatal intensive care unit questionnaire and The Parenting Stress Index—short form) and attachment (Maternal Postnatal Attachment Scale) measured 14 days after delivery, at discharge, expected term date and four months post-term.
Results
Parents were present 21 hours/day in the single-family room unit vs 7 hours/day in the Open bay unit. Ninety-three percent of the fathers in the single-family rooms unit were present PLOS