A quasi-experimental trial on individualized, developmentally supportive family-centered care.

Objective: To evaluate the impact of individualized, developmentally supportive family-centered care on infant physiological variables, growth, behavioral stress cues, return to sleep state, medical and developmental progress, complications, resource utilization, parental perception of the neonatal intensive-care unit experience, and overall parental satisfaction.

Design: Quasi-experimental, repeated measures design.

Setting: Developmental and a control nursery in a 78-bed, level II/III neonatal intensive-care unit.