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The Stress Levels of Premature Infants' Parents and Related Factors in NICU.
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- Effectiveness of a home-based, post-discharge early intervention program for very preterm infants in reducing parental stress: a randomized controlled trial.BMC public health · 2024Trial
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- Evaluation of virtual reality-based meditation as a tool to mitigate stress among parents and providers in the neonatal intensive care unit.Journal of perinatology : official journal of the California Perinatal Association · 2026Article
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- Co-Designing a Cultural Informed Framework to Promote the Well-Being of Black Canadian Parents With Preterm Infants: A Qualitative Study Protocol.Journal of advanced nursing · 2026Article
- Interactional Compression and Maternal Participation in Neonatal Intensive Care Units: A Qualitative Study of Nurse-Mother Communication Barriers and Co-Produced Solutions.Healthcare (Basel, Switzerland) · 2026Article
- Stress and Coping Strategies among Parents of Neonates in Neonatal Intensive Care Unit: A Cross-sectional Study.Annals of African medicine · 2026Article
- Relationship Between Parents' Mental Health and Infant Admission to the Neonatal Intensive Care Unit at Sultan Qaboos University Hospital, Oman.Sultan Qaboos University medical journal · 2026Article
- Preterm Delivery and Postpartum Substance Use: Implications for Maternal Mental Health in Obstetric Care.Cureus · 2025Article
- Feeding and swallowing difficulties in previously hospitalised premature infants in the neonatal intensive care unit: Perspectives from South African caregivers.The South African journal of communication disorders = Die Suid-Afrikaanse tydskrif vir Kommunikasieafwykings · 2025Article
- Psychometric Validation of the Parental Stressor Scale: Neonatal Intensive Care Unit (PSS:NICU) in a Greek Cohort of Parents of Hospitalized Neonates.Healthcare (Basel, Switzerland) · 2025Article
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- Living in a bubble with profound difficulties-parents' experiences of extremely preterm survivors.Acta paediatrica (Oslo, Norway : 1992) · 2025Article
- Parenting in the Neonatal Intensive Care Unit: A Qualitative Study.Child: care, health and development · 2025Article
- Parental Stress, Depression, Anxiety, and Participation in Neonatal Care in a Referral Brazilian NICU over Different Phases of the COVID-19 Pandemic.Children (Basel, Switzerland) · 2025Article
- The implementation and impact of narrative diaries in neonatal intensive care units: A scoping review.Nursing in critical care · 2025Article
- Assessing neonatal nurses: transitioning preterm infants to oral feeding - a multicenter cross-sectional study.BMC nursing · 2025Article
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Abstract
Introduction: Parental stress related to their infants' hospitalization is a significant concern that affects both parents and their infants. Fathers' experiences tend to be understudied compared to mothers. Further research on fathers' stress levels is necessary. While parental stress has been correlated with infant health severity, the specific causes and risk factors contributing to heightened stress levels in parents of neonatal intensive care unit (NICU) infants are not yet fully understood and require further investigation. Objective: This study aimed to examine the stress levels experienced by parents of premature infants in the NICU and to explore the factors associated with parental stress in this specific context. Methods: A cross-sectional observational design was used to accomplish this study, which was carried out on 743 parents from nine different NICUs located in governmental hospitals across various locations in Egypt. We used characteristics of parents and premature infants, and Parent Stress Scale was used for data collection. Results: A majority of parents reported experiencing high stress in the following domains: sight and sound (80.3%), infants' appearance (69%), and the parent-infant relationship (81.4%). Additionally, about three-quarters (73.6%) of parents experienced high stress overall, with a mean score of 167.56 (21.3). Conclusion: About three-quarters of the parents experienced high overall stress levels. Also, factors that were found to affect parents' stress levels included premature infants connected to mechanical ventilators, previous neonatal death, parents living far from hospitals, infants delivered through cesarean section, insufficient income, and prolonged hospitalization beyond 5 days.
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