Caregivers' perception of the role of the socio-environment on their extremely preterm child's well-being.

Purpose: The purpose of this qualitative descriptive study was to explore primary caregivers' perception of how social-environmental characteristics, and their own role as primary caregivers, affected their extremely preterm adolescent's well-being.

Methods: Participants were 20 mothers who identified as the primary caregiver of an adolescent born extremely prematurely (<28 weeks gestation) enrolled in the ELGAN cohort study. Data was collected through individual interviews and was analyzed using inductive content analysis.

Addressing Unmet Maternal Health Needs at a Pediatric Specialty Infant Care Clinic.

Objective: The objective of this intervention was to evaluate the feasibility of screening mothers of medically fragile infants in the domains of 1) depression, 2) tobacco exposure, and 3) family planning at a post-neonatal intensive care unit (NICU) developmental pediatric visit. Additionally, we sought to estimate the percentage who met criteria for further evaluation in the three domains assessed.

Methods: A cross-sectional questionnaire was administered to 100 caregivers of medically fragile infants at a specialty, post-NICU clinic visit.