Trial reportMaternal and child health journal2020
Financial Support to Medicaid-Eligible Mothers Increases Caregiving for Preterm Infants.
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17 citing papers in PubMed, 2 syntheses or guidelines pooled it.
- Associations Between Unconditional Cash Transfers and Postpartum Outcomes in the United States : A Systematic Review.Annals of internal medicine · 2025Pooled it
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- Unconditional cash transfers to low-income preterm infants and their families: a pilot randomized controlled trial.Journal of perinatology : official journal of the California Perinatal Association · 2025Trial
- Conditional and Unconditional Social Transfers, Early-Life Nutrition, and Child Growth: A Randomized Clinical Trial.JAMA pediatrics · 2025Trial
- Surrogate skin-to-skin care: the "donor milk" of kangaroo mother care.Journal of perinatology : official journal of the California Perinatal Association · 2026Review
- Going beyond participation: community-led design and evaluation of the Philly Joy Bank.Frontiers in public health · 2026Article
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- Non-health care costs associated with neonatal intensive care unit visitation.Health affairs scholar · 2025Article
- Financial incentives for family members of hospitalized neonates for improving family presence.The Cochrane database of systematic reviews · 2024Article
- Identifying Facilitators and Barriers to Neonatal Intensive Care Unit Visitation in Mothers of Low Socioeconomic Status: A Qualitative Investigation.Children (Basel, Switzerland) · 2024Article
- Optimal presence: enhancing parent integration to maximize neurodevelopmental outcomes in preterm infants.Pediatric research · 2024Review
- Evaluating Intensity, Complexity, and Potential for Causal Inference in Social Needs Interventions: A Review of a Scoping Review.JAMA network open · 2024Article
- Social Transfers for Exclusive Breastfeeding (STEB) Intervention in Lao People's Democratic Republic: Protocol for a Randomized Controlled Trial.JMIR research protocols · 2024Article
- Unconditional cash transfers for preterm neonates: evidence, policy implications, and next steps for research.Maternal health, neonatology and perinatology · 2024Article
- Social determinants of health rather than race impact health-related quality of life in 10-year-old children born extremely preterm.Frontiers in pediatrics · 2024Article
- Place-Based Strategies Addressing Neighborhood Environments to Improve Perinatal and Preterm Infant Outcomes.Children (Basel, Switzerland) · 2023Article
- Ronald McDonald House accommodation and parental presence in the neonatal intensive care unit.Journal of perinatology : official journal of the California Perinatal Association · 2021Article
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Abstract
objectivesTo assess the impact of financial support on maternal caregiving activities for preterm infants.
methodsWe conducted a small randomized controlled trial (RCT) in two Massachusetts Neonatal Intensive Care Units (NICUs). We enrolled 46 Medicaid-eligible mothers of preterm infants between January 2017 and June 2018 and randomly assigned them to a treatment group (up to 3 weekly financial transfers of $200 each while their infant was in the hospital) or a control group. We collected hospital-record data while the infant was admitted. The primary outcome was a binary variable indicating skin-to-skin care (STSC) was provided during a hospital day. Secondary outcomes included daily maternal visitation, daily provision of breastmilk, neonatal growth and length of stay (LOS). Multilevel generalized linear models with random effects were used to estimate treatment effects on daily maternal behaviors and ordinary least squares models were used to estimate impacts on neonatal growth and LOS.
resultsWe assigned 25 women to the intervention and 21 to the control and observed them over 703 days of their infants' hospitalization. Mothers who received financial support were more likely to provide STSC (adjusted risk ratio: 1.85; 95% confidence interval [CI] 1.31-2.62) and breastmilk (adjusted risk ratio: 1.36; 95% CI 1.06-1.75) while their infant was in the NICU. We see no statistically significant impact on neonatal growth outcomes or LOS, though estimated confidence intervals are imprecise.
conclusionsOur evidence demonstrates the potential for financial support to increase mothers' engagement with caregiving behaviors for preterm infants during the NICU stay.
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