Abstract
Giving birth prematurely and having your baby hospitalized in a neonatal intensive care unit (NICU) may cause consequences for the family lasting far beyond the hospitalization. Research shows, that parents experience stress sometimes lasting for months or years after discharge. This can influence the familyformation and establishment of a healthy family. Quality of communication with healthcare-professionals is of great importance to how the hospitalization influences the parents and their stressmanagement. The importance of personal communication is well documented but a method to ensure this to take place in practice is still needed. Hypothese: Using a method to guide communication between parents and healthcare-professionals will reduce parents stress and facilitate transition to home. The method Guidet Familycentered Care (GFC) has been developed on the basis of litterature study combined with many years of experience within this speciality. The method consists of regular dialogues throughout hospital stay focusing on issues perceived by the parents as challenging. Focusing on the essential to the parents is guided by the parents preparing for some dialogues filling out reflection sheets. Method: Guided Family-centered Care intervention in a mixed methods design. Part one: Participatory research aimed at developing and implementing GFC in a NICU. Part two: Effect measured in RCT. Participants: 75 families with prematurely born babies in interventiongroup and 75 in controlgroup, 25 NICU nurses. Instruments for effect-measurement: Parental Stress Scale:NICU and Nurse-Parent-Support-Tool. Part three: Qualitative approach with individual interviews with 10 – 20 families strategically chosen.
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