Organizing the Information Given to Parents of NICU Infants in Order to Reduce Their Anxiety - Full Text View

Purpose

Being a parent to a premature infant in NICU is an anxious state. Parents ask a lot of questions, and look for information all the time. Organizing the information given to parents could reduce their anxiety. The parents will be divided into two groups: one group will get organized information, by a lecture at the first week of their infant's life, and the other group will not. Of course, questions will be answered all the time. The parents will answer a questionnaire on the first week of the infant's life, and on the last week, just before releasing the infant home.

Condition	Intervention
Anxiety	Behavioral: Lecture


Study Type:	Interventional
Study Design:	Allocation: Randomized Intervention Model: Parallel Assignment Masking: Open Label Primary Purpose: Supportive Care
Official Title:	Dose Organizing the Information Given to Parents of NICU Infants Reduce Their Anxiety?

Resource links provided by NLM:

MedlinePlus related topics: Anxiety

U.S. FDA Resources

Further study details as provided by Hillel Yaffe Medical Center:

Primary Outcome Measures:

Difference between questionnaires at the first week and the last week to hospitalization. [ Time Frame: 1 year ] [ Designated as safety issue: No ]


Enrollment:	0
Study Start Date:	July 2008
Estimated Study Completion Date:	July 2008
Estimated Primary Completion Date:	July 2008 (Final data collection date for primary outcome measure)

Arms	Assigned Interventions
Experimental: 1 The group that will have lecture of information regarding infants in NICU.	Behavioral: Lecture Lecture of information regarding prematurity, NICU hospitalization, etc.
No Intervention: 2 The group that will not have lecture of information regarding NICU hospitalization

Detailed Description:

Being a parent to a premature infant in NICU is an anxious state. Parents ask a lot of questions, and look for information all the time. Organizing the information given to parents could reduce their anxiety. The parents will be divided into two groups: one group will get organized information, by a lecture at the first week of their infant's life, and the other group will not. Of course, questions will be answered all the time. The parents will answer a questionnaire on the first week of the infant's life, and on the last week, just before releasing the infant home.

Eligibility


Ages Eligible for Study:	up to 4 Months
Genders Eligible for Study:	Both
Accepts Healthy Volunteers:	Yes

Criteria

Inclusion Criteria:

Parents to premature infants, after releasing the mother

Exclusion Criteria:

Term infants
Hospitalized mother

Contacts and Locations

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Please refer to this study by its ClinicalTrials.gov identifier: NCT00699127

Locations


Israel
Hillel Yaffe medical center
Hadera, Israel, 38100

Sponsors and Collaborators

Hillel Yaffe Medical Center

Investigators


Study Chair:	Erez Nadir, MD	Hillel Yaffe medical center, Hadera, Israel

More Information

No publications provided


Responsible Party:	Erez Nadir, MD, Hillel Yaffe medical center
ClinicalTrials.gov Identifier:	NCT00699127 History of Changes
Other Study ID Numbers:	HY-19-2008-CTIL
Study First Received:	June 14, 2008
Last Updated:	July 3, 2008
Health Authority:	Israel: Ministry of Health

Keywords provided by Hillel Yaffe Medical Center:


anxiety parents NICU prematurity Anxiety of parents to NICU infants

Additional relevant MeSH terms:


Anxiety Disorders Mental Disorders

ClinicalTrials.gov processed this record on February 25, 2015