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- Title
Alberta Family Integrated Care™ and Standard Care: A Qualitative Study of Mothers' Experiences of their Journeying to Home from the Neonatal Intensive Care Unit.
- Authors
Dien, Rachael; Benzies, Karen M.; Zanoni, Pilar; Kurilova, Jana
- Abstract
Globally, one in ten infants is born preterm. Most preterm infants require care in a level II Neonatal Intensive Care Unit (NICU), which are highly technological critical care environments that can be overwhelming for parents. Alberta Family Integrated Care (AB-FICare™) is an approach to care that provides strategies to integrate parents into their infant's care team. This sub-study is the first to compare mothers' experiences in the context of AB-FICare™ and standard care. Semi-structured interviews with mothers from AB-FICare™ (n = 14) and standard care (n = 12) NICUs were analyzed using interpretive description informed by grounded theory methods. We identified a major theme of Journeying to Home with six categories: Recovering from Birth, Adapting to the NICU, Caring for Baby, Coping with Daily Disruption, Seeing Progress, and Supporting Parenting. Mothers in the AB-FICare™ group identified an enhancement to standard care related to building reciprocal trust with healthcare providers that accelerated Journeying to Home.
- Subjects
ALBERTA; HOME environment; ATTITUDES of mothers; NEONATAL intensive care; CHILD care; SOCIAL support; RESEARCH methodology; GROUNDED theory; CONVALESCENCE; NEONATAL intensive care units; INTERVIEWING; FAMILY-centered care; QUALITATIVE research; PARENTING; DESCRIPTIVE statistics; RESEARCH funding; THEMATIC analysis; PSYCHOLOGICAL adaptation; DATA analysis software
- Publication
Global Qualitative Nursing Research, 2022, Vol 9, p1
- ISSN
2333-3936
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1177/23333936221097113