Evidence · Systematic review or meta-analysis
Nurses' strategies to provide emotional and practical support to the mothers of preterm infants in the neonatal intensive care unit: A systematic review and meta-analysis.
- Comfort and nursing care
- Communicating with families
- Developmental care and positioning
- Families and professional practice
- Family-integrated care
- Nursing
- Wellbeing
Summary
This systematic review and meta-analysis synthesises quantitative studies (2010–2021) on nursing strategies that provide emotional and practical support to mothers of preterm infants in the NICU. Twenty studies were grouped into strategies addressing maternal emotions and attachment, empowerment, and participation in care. A meta-analysis of eight interventional studies found that interventions such as education programmes, spiritual care, telenursing, parent support, skin-to-skin care and guided family-centred care were associated with lower maternal stress. It highlights family-centred care, NIDCAP and parent support as key approaches for neonatal nurses.
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