Abstract
Parents of all infants who stayed 2 weeks or longer in the neonatal intensive care unit were surveyed to (1) assess the levels of contact and anxiety experienced by parents of infants transferred to the neonatal intensive care unit; and (2) to compare these levels with those of parents of infants who were born in-hospital. Morbidity was assessed using the Infant Morbidity Score. Thirty-three were parents of transfer infants and 58 were parents of born-in infants. There was no significant difference among the transfer and born-in infants in severity of illness or length of hospitalization. Parents of transfer infants had significantly less infant contact than parents of born-in infants (p<0.05). Anxiety levels in each group of parents were similar. There were significant positive correlations between contact and anxiety (p<0.03) and between infant morbidity and anxiety (p<0.01) in both groups. These findings suggest that the decreased contact by parents of transfer infants due to early separation and to distance did not alter the pattern of response to their infant's illness.
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