Trial reportJournal of neonatal-perinatal medicine2025
Story-Telling Attention-Refocusing (STAR) intervention to alleviate acute stress in parents of infants in the NICU.
Trial report in Journal of neonatal-perinatal medicine, 2025. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Not yet cited in PubMed.
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IntroductionAdmission of an infant to the neonatal intensive care unit (NICU) is a stressful event for parents. The physical separation and inability to hold their child due to minimal handling protocols or infection control such as in the recent COVID-19 pandemic is a major contributor to parental stress. Knowledge on a contact-free parent administered intervention to reduce the stress of parents whose infant necessitates neonatal intensive care is lacking.ObjectiveTo assess the effect of a contact-free, Story-Telling Attention-Refocusing (STAR) intervention on the acute stress of parents whose infant is in the NICU.MethodsA block-randomized controlled single-blind trial was conducted in a level II-III NICU. Parents in the experimental group provided the STAR intervention which consisted of designated prompts to share stories with their infants over a ten-minute period, three times per week, for 1 week. Parent acute stress was measured using the PSS:NICU questionnaire before and after the STAR intervention period, and differences in acute stress between mothers and fathers were assessed as well as parent satisfaction.ResultsTwenty-one parents completed the study. Results revealed that overall PSS:NICU stress scores lowered significantly within the intervention group (
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