ArticleActa paediatrica (Oslo, Norway : 1992)2025
Effect of couplet care on early parent-infant closeness among preterm infants.
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- Stable Trends in Clinical Outcomes Before Introduction of Couplet Care in a Danish Neonatal Intensive Care Unit.Acta paediatrica (Oslo, Norway : 1992) · 2026Article
- Nurse-led family integrated care and time to first parent-infant holding in very preterm infants (< 32 weeks): a multi-site pre-post quasi-experimental study.BMC nursing · 2026Article
- Parents of Premature Infants Value Early Skin-to-Skin Care: A 10-Year Survey in France.Acta paediatrica (Oslo, Norway : 1992) · 2026Article
- Mother-Newborn Couplet Care in Denmark: A National Cross-Sectional Survey of Clinical Practices and Challenges.Acta paediatrica (Oslo, Norway : 1992) · 2026Article
- Effect of couplet care on early parent-infant closeness among preterm infants.Acta paediatrica (Oslo, Norway : 1992) · 2025Article
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aimTo evaluate the effect of couplet care on parent-infant closeness among preterm infants.
methodsA comparison study in a Level III neonatal intensive care unit (NICU) before and after the introduction of couplet care, including stabilising infants in the delivery unit for early skin-to-skin contact, providing mothers' postpartum care in the infant's room and providing the father's bed in the infant's room. The study included parents of preterm infants born below 35 weeks.
resultsParents of 40 and 66 infants were included before and after couplet care was introduced, respectively. In the linear regression model, the first skin-to-skin contact happened significantly earlier after the introduction than before: mean 4.0 vs. 24.0 h after birth and mean difference -18.5 (95% confidence interval -34.8 to -2.1). A larger proportion of infants received their first skin-to-skin contact within 2 h after birth after the introduction than before (45.5% vs. 8.6%; odds ratio 13.8 [3.6-62.8]). At least one parent was present in the infant's NICU room longer after the introduction than before (mean 21.2 vs. 10.8 h per day; mean difference 10.8 [9.1-12.4]).
conclusionCouplet care significantly increased parent-infant closeness during the first weeks of life.
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