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Assessment and Evaluation of the High Risk Neonate: The NICU Network Neurobehavioral Scale
Published on: August 25, 2014
Prenatal workshop and support groups for parents of children who will come to the NICU
Beatrice Boutillier1,2, Elisabeth Legault3, Fanny Labelle3
1Centre de recherche, CHU Sainte-Justine, Montréal, QC, Canada. beatrice.boutillier@orange.fr.
Objective:
Evaluate the impact of prenatal workshops for parents whose baby would be admitted to the NICU because of prematurity or congenital anomalies.
Study Design:
The workshop was developed and optimized in a needs assessment and pilot phase. During the prospective phase, future NICU parents were offered participation in the workshop; their perspectives were investigated using mixed methods.
Results:
A total of 152 parents participated. They evaluated the workshop at 9.6/10 on average. Almost all (98%) agreed/strongly agreed that the workshop was useful, that it helped them prepare for the birth (95%), made them feel less lonely (90%) and that exchanges with other parents were beneficial (92%). All answers to open-ended questions were positive. After the birth, 90% remembered the workshop and 90% would recommend it to other parents.
Conclusion:
Prenatal educational workshop provides a unique and useful means to support future NICU parents and prepare them for the NICU hospitalization.
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