Recruitment

Recruitment Status
Recruiting
Estimated Enrollment
Same as current

Summary

Conditions
  • Chronic Conditions, Multiple
  • Family Research
  • Parent-Child Relations
  • Parenting
  • Patient Empowerment
  • Patient Engagement
  • Premature Infant Disease
  • Self Efficacy
Type
Interventional
Phase
Not Applicable
Design
Allocation: RandomizedIntervention Model: Parallel AssignmentMasking: Triple (Participant, Care Provider, Outcomes Assessor)Primary Purpose: Supportive Care

Participation Requirements

Age
Younger than 125 years
Gender
Both males and females

Description

Increasing numbers of very preterm infants are surviving and have chronic, complex healthcare needs due to prematurity. These infants experience increased healthcare utilization, long durations of stay in the Neonatal Intensive Care Unit (NICU), and are at high risk of developing prematurity-related...

Increasing numbers of very preterm infants are surviving and have chronic, complex healthcare needs due to prematurity. These infants experience increased healthcare utilization, long durations of stay in the Neonatal Intensive Care Unit (NICU), and are at high risk of developing prematurity-related complications. As a result, their care is complex, and families need structured training to effectively understand, monitor, and manage their infant's care. PREEMIE PROGRESS is an innovative, video-based intervention that applies evidence-based family management theories to better equip parents to meet the chronic, complex healthcare needs of their preterm infant. This research aims to 1) refine a novel family management program, called PREEMIE PROGRESS, through iterative usability and acceptability testing and 2) test feasibility and acceptability of the refined intervention and study procedures in a pilot randomized controlled trial. This project will use implementation science tools and approaches to refine the intervention and study procedures to ensure that PREEMIE PROGRESS addresses key program elements that will be important for future adoption and implementation in NICU settings. We anticipate that the intervention will decrease parent anxiety and depression, increase infant weight gain and receipt of mother's milk, and reduce neonatal healthcare utilization. The long-term goal of this project is to develop, test, and translate into NICU practice an efficacious family management intervention for parents of preterm infants. Dr. Weber will significantly advance nursing science through this project by obtaining preliminary feasibility and acceptability data for a scalable and sustainable intervention to facilitate family management and improve parent-infant health outcomes.

Tracking Information

NCT #
NCT04638127
Collaborators
National Institute of Nursing Research (NINR)
Investigators
Principal Investigator: Ashley M Weber, PhD, RN University of Cincinnati