70: Parent Reports of Stressful Experiences in a Shared Room Versus a Single Family Room NICU
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Abstract
Alterations in the anticipated and expected parental role is documented as the single most stressful consequence of having an infant admitted to the NICU. Single family rooms (SFR) are thought to promote maternal bonding, breastfeeding and an increased sense of parental competency; with decreased rates of depression and anxiety. To compare parent stress, self-competency, and perceived quality of care in a shared (DB) NICU versus a SFR NICU. Parent perspectives were explored as a sub-study within a larger prospective observational cohort investigation of a NICU move from December 2013 to September 2014. Self-report questionnaires were administered over a one-month period in a DB NICU, and during a three-month interval in a new SFR NICU. The questionnaire contained items on spousal support and demographics and a compilation of scales including the Edinburg Postnatal Depression Scale (EDPS) and the Parental Stress Scale (PSS:NICU). Responses were compared using Pearson χ2 and Student's t-test. Eight families from the DB NICU and nine families from the SFR NICU participated. The majority of participants reported Caucasian ethnicity (75%), Canada as their country of origin (65%) and English as a primary language (70.6%). Mean age was 30.9 (6.5) years and over one-half (56.2%) of the subjects reported a family income >$100,000/year. Parents reported their time in the NICU as very or extremely stressful (76.5%). Overall scores on the PSS:NICU were higher in the SFR NICU than in the DB NICU (65.7 versus 49.1, P=0.03). On the EDPS, 76% of participants had scores consistent with possible depression however, there was no difference between scores in the DB and SFR NICUs (13.2 vs 10.3, P=0.18). There was no difference in parenting sense of competency between groups (83.3 vs 80.3, P=0.47). Although families reported higher levels of stress in the SFR NICU than in the DB NICU, it is important to recognize that this was a study of only 17 participants. Notwithstanding, research has shown that parents do feel more isolated from other families in the SFR units, which could conceivably lead to higher stress levels. Future studies should also include evaluation of peer support systems within the unit. Similarly, larger samples are required to control for severity of infant illness.
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Distilled classifier scores by category (both heads)
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| Metaresearch | 0.001 | 0.004 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.001 | 0.000 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.001 | 0.000 |
| Open science | 0.000 | 0.001 |
| Research integrity | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.001 | 0.000 |
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