Psycho‐emotional intervention with parents of very preterm babies during the first year: A single‐arm pilot study.
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| Title: | Psycho‐emotional intervention with parents of very preterm babies during the first year: A single‐arm pilot study. |
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| Authors: | Padilla‐Muñoz, Eva M., Barbancho‐Morant, M. Merced, Lanzarote‐Fernández, M. Dolores, Sanduvete‐Chaves, Susana, Chacón‐Moscoso, Salvador |
| Source: | Family Process. Dec2024, Vol. 63 Issue 4, p1826-1850. 25p. |
| Subjects: | Psychotherapy, Post-traumatic stress disorder, Psychological resilience, Pearson correlation (Statistics), Repeated measures design, T-test (Statistics), Data analysis, Research funding, Neonatal intensive care units, Pilot projects, Kruskal-Wallis Test, Neonatal intensive care, Emotions, Descriptive statistics, Parenting, Psychological stress, Analysis of variance, Statistics, Psychology of parents, Data analysis software, Well-being, Mental depression |
| Geographic Terms: | Spain |
| Abstract: | Studies of intervention programs that aim to improve the emotional state of parents of children admitted to the neonatal intensive care units (NICU) are scarce in Spain. The aims of this single‐arm pilot study are to get to know the emotional profile of parents of high‐risk preterm newborns, and to explore parents' patterns of emotional well‐being before and after a psychological program called the Parental Empowerment Program, to increase parental readiness levels. The sample was made up of 100 parents (50 couples) who participated in the program. Measurements were taken of post‐traumatic stress, depression, and resilience at 1 month and 12 months. Repeated measurements and dyadic data analyses were performed. One month after the birth of the baby and prior to the start of the program, mothers show more symptoms of stress and depression than fathers. After the intervention, both parents experienced improvements in their mood levels. The evidence obtained seems to show that high resilience levels and low post‐traumatic stress symptoms are associated with reduced depression levels after implementing the program. However, the heterogeneity of the responses obtained, the observed associations between stress, resilience, and maternal depression, along with the reciprocal influence between maternal and paternal depression 1 year after the intervention, highlight the need for a more in‐depth exploration of the interplay between risk and protective factors in this population. Despite the identified potential threats to validity, further work in this direction is recommended, including the implementation of clinical trials to demonstrate intervention efficacy. The adaptation of the parents' mutual emotional adjustment at each stage would allow them to participate more actively in the baby's care. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR] |
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| Abstract: | Studies of intervention programs that aim to improve the emotional state of parents of children admitted to the neonatal intensive care units (NICU) are scarce in Spain. The aims of this single‐arm pilot study are to get to know the emotional profile of parents of high‐risk preterm newborns, and to explore parents' patterns of emotional well‐being before and after a psychological program called the Parental Empowerment Program, to increase parental readiness levels. The sample was made up of 100 parents (50 couples) who participated in the program. Measurements were taken of post‐traumatic stress, depression, and resilience at 1 month and 12 months. Repeated measurements and dyadic data analyses were performed. One month after the birth of the baby and prior to the start of the program, mothers show more symptoms of stress and depression than fathers. After the intervention, both parents experienced improvements in their mood levels. The evidence obtained seems to show that high resilience levels and low post‐traumatic stress symptoms are associated with reduced depression levels after implementing the program. However, the heterogeneity of the responses obtained, the observed associations between stress, resilience, and maternal depression, along with the reciprocal influence between maternal and paternal depression 1 year after the intervention, highlight the need for a more in‐depth exploration of the interplay between risk and protective factors in this population. Despite the identified potential threats to validity, further work in this direction is recommended, including the implementation of clinical trials to demonstrate intervention efficacy. The adaptation of the parents' mutual emotional adjustment at each stage would allow them to participate more actively in the baby's care. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR] |
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| ISSN: | 00147370 |
| DOI: | 10.1111/famp.13002 |
