Heel Warming in Very-Low-Birth-Weight Newborns for Capillary Blood Sampling.

Objective: To determine if performing heel stick procedures for capillary blood sampling without prior heel warming is noninferior to the standard practice of warming the heel in very-low-birth-weight newborns.

Design: Noninferiority randomized control trial.

Setting: The study took place in two Level 3 NICUs in The Netherlands.

The fundamentals of a parental peer-to-peer support program in the NICU: a scoping review.

Purpose And Background: Parental peer support is part of the Family Integrated Care model in NICUs. However, little attention has been devoted to the specific content and organization of parental peer support programs. This scoping review aimed to identify (1) the preferred content of a parental peer support intervention, (2) the organizational processes, and (3) the suggested educational curriculum for peer support providers within existing programs in neonatal care.

Parents in Neonatal Pain Management-An International Survey of Parent-Delivered Interventions and Parental Pain Assessment.

Background: While parent-delivered pain management has been demonstrated to effectively reduce neonatal procedural pain responses, little is known about to what extent it is utilized. Our aim was to explore the utilization of parents in neonatal pain management and investigate whether local guidelines promote parent-delivered interventions.

Methods: A web-based survey was distributed to neonatal units worldwide.

Getting a grip in the middle of chaos: Preparing for preterm parenthood during a high-risk pregnancy - Parental experiences and needs.

Aim: Admitting an infant to a neonatal intensive care unit (NICU) is stressful for parents. A great source of stress is the loss of their desired parental role. This study explores parents' experiences and needs during a high-risk pregnancy in preparation for their role as parents of a preterm infant.

Symptoms of depression in parents after discharge from NICU associated with family-centred care.

Aims: The aim of this study was to examine the potential association of family-centred care as perceived by parents during a NICU stay with parents' depressive symptoms at discharge and at 4 months corrected for infant age.

Design: A longitudinal, multicentre cohort study was conducted from 2018 to 2020 in 23 NICUs across 15 countries.

Methods: Parents (n = 635 mothers, n = 466, fathers) of infants (n = 739) born before 35 weeks of gestation and admitted to the participating NICUs were enrolled to the study during the first weeks of their infants' hospitalizations.