Evidence · Randomised trial
Effectiveness of Alberta Family Integrated Care on infant length of stay in level II neonatal intensive care units: a cluster randomized controlled trial.
- Allied health
- Communicating with families
- Developmental care and positioning
- Education and simulation
- Families and professional practice
- Family-integrated care
- Medical
- Nursing
- Postnatal and transitional care
This paper is from 2020, more than five years ago. Newer evidence may have been published since.
Summary
Pragmatic cluster randomised controlled trial across 10 level II NICUs in Alberta, Canada, evaluating Alberta FICare, a psychoeducational model with relational communication, parent education and parent support components. It enrolled mothers and their singleton or twin infants born at 32 to 34+6 weeks' gestation. After adjustment for site and infant risk factors, hospital length of stay was shorter in the FICare group without increases in readmissions or emergency department visits. Feeding at discharge, maternal distress and parenting self-efficacy did not differ between groups.
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