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Parenting the prematurely born child

D Holditch-Davis1, M S Miles

  • 1School of Nursing, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, USA.

Annual Review of Nursing Research
|January 1, 1997
PubMed

Insights

This review summarizes nursing research on parenting premature infants, highlighting the need for improved study designs and culturally sensitive interventions for diverse families.

Area of Science:

  • Nursing research
  • Developmental psychology
  • Family studies

Background:

  • Parenting prematurely born infants presents unique challenges.
  • Existing research covers various aspects of early parenting experiences.

Purpose of the Study:

  • To synthesize findings from nursing research on parenting prematurely born infants.
  • To identify gaps and future directions in this research area.

Main Methods:

  • Literature review of nursing research.
  • Focus on eight key areas of parenting prematurely born children.

Main Results:

  • Research has explored home environment impact, mother-infant relationship, hospitalization parenting, discharge concerns, fathering, infant subpopulations, and long-term parenting.
  • Identified need for stronger study designs and more intervention-focused research.

Conclusions:

  • Future research should prioritize intervention studies.
  • Culturally sensitive research is crucial, particularly for fathers and minority groups.

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