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- Title
The follow-up, in the family, of the premature and low-birth-weight infants that were discharged from the hospital neonatal intensive care unit: a literature review.
- Authors
Viera, Cláudia Silveira; de Mello, Débora Falleiros; de Oliveira, Beatriz Rosana Gonçalves
- Abstract
This study aimed to consider the contribution of the national and international literature production about the follow-up of the premature and the low-birth-weight newborns discharged from the neonatal intensive care unit and their families. The search for articles was done in libraries and online bases of data with controlled descriptors, in the period from 1996 to 2006. Twenty articles were selected and the analysis allowed us to identify the proposed theme in which we analyzed the premature and low-birth-weight follow-up; the mothers' care to their babies at home; the transition period to the house; the family and the premature and low-birth-weight at home. This revision points out the importance of families participation in the care of those infants to minimize the consequences of the prematurity and low-birth-weight, providing attention to the needs from this context and stimulating mechanisms to encourage each familiar unity and the child in the sequency as in the risk ambulatory care as in the health primary attention.
- Subjects
NEWBORN infant care; CHILD care; PREMATURE infants; LOW birth weight; INFANT health services; NEONATAL intensive care
- Publication
Online Brazilian Journal of Nursing, 2008, Vol 7, Issue 3, p5
- ISSN
1676-4285
- Publication type
Article