Effects of the Couplet Care in Neonatal Intensive Care Unit

Launched by TURKU UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL · Dec 8, 2022

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Background: It is essential to keep newborn infants and their parents together for the well-being of both. However, the families whose infants need admission to the neonatal intensive care unit (NICU) are often separated. One of the solutions to reduce parent-infant separation is couplet care, where both mother and newborn infant receive their postpartum care in the same hospital room, even if the infant needs intensive care. However, currently only a few NICUs practice couplet care, and the scientific evidence to support implementing couplet care has been scarce. Since moving into the new ...

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Eligibility criteria

• • \[Family\]
• Inclusion Criteria:
• • Families of preterm infants born below 35 weeks of gestation at Turku University Hospital
• Exclusion Criteria:
• • The expected duration of hospitalization is less than 3 days
• • Outborn infants
• • The infants are triplets or more
• • The parents cannot understand the informed consent form in either Finnish, Swedish, English, or Russian
• • The infant's condition is critical and survival is uncertain
• • \[healthcare staff\]
• Inclusion Criteria:
• • All healthcare staff who have the possibility to participate in the decision about parent-infant early skin-to-skin contact after the delivery.
• Exclusion Criteria:
• • No