ArticleResearch in nursing & health2022
Uncertainty and perinatal post-traumatic stress disorder in the neonatal intensive care unit.
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- Factors associated with posttraumatic stress and anxiety among the parents of babies admitted to neonatal care: a systematic review.BMC pregnancy and childbirth · 2024Pooled it
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- Parents' perspectives on the use of statistics to convey uncertainty in the NICU: a qualitative analysis.Journal of perinatology : official journal of the California Perinatal Association · 2026Article
- A retrospective study on post-traumatic stress disorder in fathers of preterm infants in the NICU and the effectiveness of kangaroo care intervention.Frontiers in psychiatry · 2026Article
- Prevalence of positive screens for depression, anxiety, and PTSD symptoms among parents of infants admitted to a NICU: a pilot study.Frontiers in psychiatry · 2026Article
- "Ringleader who has no power": a qualitative study of parent uncertainty during a NICU admission unrelated to prematurity.Maternal health, neonatology and perinatology · 2025Article
- Efficacy of Family Health Conversations on Mental Health, Family Wellbeing, and Family Functioning for Parents of Infants Requiring Mechanical Respiratory Support During Neonatal Intensive Care.Journal of family nursing · 2025Article
- Uncertainties in the NICU: a scoping review to inform a tailored taxonomy.Journal of perinatology : official journal of the California Perinatal Association · 2025Article
- The effect of illness uncertainty and self-efficacy on the perception of shared decision-making among parents of infants in the neonatal intensive care unit.Nursing in critical care · 2025Article
- Impact of systematic screening for social determinants of health in a level IV neonatal intensive care unit.Journal of perinatology : official journal of the California Perinatal Association · 2025Article
- Construction of a visual nomogram prediction model for post-traumatic stress disorder in mothers of very low birth weight infants.Frontiers in psychiatry · 2025Article
- Impact of systematic screening for social determinants of health in a level IV neonatal intensive care unit.Research square · 2024Article
- An Overview for the General Psychiatrist Evaluating Patients With Obstetric and Neonatal Complications and Perinatal Loss.Focus (American Psychiatric Publishing) · 2024Article
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- Uncertainty and the NICU Experience: A Qualitative Evaluation of Family and Provider Perspectives.Children (Basel, Switzerland) · 2023Article
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Abstract
Parents of infants in the neonatal intensive care unit (NICU) are at increased risk of developing perinatal post-traumatic stress disorder (PPTSD), a mental health condition known to interfere with healthy parental and infant attachment. Feelings of uncertainty about illness have been theorized as an antecedent to post-traumatic stress, however the relationship has not been explored in parents of infants requiring care in the NICU. The purpose of this prospective study was to explore parental uncertainty during and after NICU discharge and the relationship between uncertainty and PPTSD. The sample consisted of 319 parents during NICU hospitalization and 245 parents at 3 months postdischarge. Parents who screened positive for PPTSD 3 months after hospital discharge reported more uncertainty both while in the NICU and 3 months after hospital discharge (p < 0.001). In parents with a personal or family history of mental illness, the moderated/mediating structural probit analysis showed no direct or indirect effect of uncertainty during hospitalization or at 3 months after hospital discharge on screening positive for PPTSD. In parents who did not report personal or family history of mental illness, uncertainty at 3 months after hospital discharge had a direct effect (b = 0.678, p < 0.001) and indirect mediating effect (b = 0.276, p < 0.001) on screening positive for PPTSD. The results provide actionable implications for mental health and NICU providers: (1) routine screening for uncertainty and risk factors including previous personal and family history of mental illness, and (2) the development of NICU follow-up support services to mitigate risk for PPTSD.
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