Our study aim to evaluate the effect of online program that provides education to parents of premature infants in which stayed in the neonatal intensive care units (NICU),in their motor,socail-communişcation development and the parents stress level.
Our study aim to increase the level f knowledge of the parents of premature infants that stayed in the NICU,to better manage their stress and to provide them with informations to support the motor and social-communication development of their infants.
Study Type
INTERVENTIONAL
Allocation
RANDOMIZED
Purpose
SUPPORTIVE_CARE
Masking
DOUBLE
Enrollment
73
The training we provided was to give exercises and advice to parents according to the age of the baby in order to stimulate the motor and social development of the baby,and then, an improvement in the stress state of the parents by their participation in the care of their baby.The training, which began with the discharge of the baby from the hospital, was in the form of slide presentations and videos.
Parents and their infants in the control group did not receive any online education program
Marmara University
Istanbul, Turkey (Türkiye)
Alberta Infant Motor Scale (AIMS)
AIMS assesses the gross infant motor skills in supine, prone, sitting and standing positions with 58 items.the child is scored dec 0 to 58 points and evaluated with age-appropriate percentile curves:0-10 atypical development, 11-25 questionable performance, 26-75 normal performance, 76-90 very good performance, 91-100 are classified as excellent performance.
Time frame: Premature infant motor development was assessed one time by AIMS at their 6 month corrected age
The Social-Communication Area Screening Test of İnfant (SCASI)
SCASI assesses the social-communication infant skills,filled by the parents.it is an original and fast test for the early identification and evaluation of children at developmental risk in infancy and early childhood up to the age of 6-24 months.
Time frame: Premature infant social-communication development was assessed one time by SCASI at their 6 month corrected age.
Parenting Stress Index, Fourth Edition Short Form (PSI-4-SF)
PSI-4-SF assesses the parents stress level.PSI-4-SF contains 36 items: 12 items for Parental Stress (PS) , 12 items for Parent-Child dysfonctional Interaction (P-CDI), and 12 items for Difficult Child (DC).The normal range for scores is within the 16th to 84th percentiles.Scores in the 85th to 89th percentile are considered high,and scores in the 90th percentile or higher are considered clinically significant.
Time frame: Parents stress level was assessed one time by PSI-4-SF at their infant 6 month corrected age.
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