Parent Readiness for Their Preterm Infant's Neonatal Intensive Care Unit Discharge.
J Perinat Neonatal Nurs
; 37(1): 68-76, 2023.
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| ID: mdl-36707751
ABSTRACT
This study aims to examine the influence of hospital experience factors on parental discharge readiness, accounting for key background characteristics. Parents/guardians of infants 33 weeks of gestation or less at birth receiving neonatal intensive care at 6 sites were enrolled from April 2017 to August 2018. Participants completed surveys at enrollment, 3 weeks later, and at discharge. Multiple regression analysis assessed relationships between parental experience, well-being, and perceived readiness for infant discharge, adjusting for socioenvironmental, infant clinical, and parent demographic characteristics. Most (77%) of the 139 parents reported high levels of readiness for their infant's discharge and 92% reported high self-efficacy at discharge. The multiple regression model accounted for 40% of the variance in discharge readiness. Perceptions of family-centered care accounted for 12% of the variance; measures of parent well-being, anxiety, and parenting self-efficacy accounted for an additional 16% of the variance; parent characteristics accounted for an additional 9%; and infant characteristics accounted for less than 3% of the variance. Parental perceptions of the family-centeredness of the hospital experience, anxiety, and parenting self-efficacy accounted for a substantial proportion of the variance in readiness for discharge scores among parents of preterm infant. These influential perceptions are potentially modifiable by nursing-led interventions.
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Assunto principal:
Recém-Nascido Prematuro
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Unidades de Terapia Intensiva Neonatal
Tipo de estudo:
Prognostic_studies
Limite:
Humans
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Infant
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Newborn
Idioma:
En
Ano de publicação:
2023
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Article