Community, Hope, and Resilience: Parental Perspectives on Peer Support in Neonatology.

Objectives: To describe the perspective of parents who participated in peer-to-peer support meetings with parents of children in a neonatal intensive care unit (NICU) and veteran resource parents with previous NICU experience.

Study Design: During a longitudinal evaluation in a tertiary care NICU, participating parents were asked to evaluate meetings; with open-ended questions, they were asked about their perspectives. Results were analyzed using mixed methods.

Peer support groups for families in Neonatology: Why and how to get started?

Aim: To describe the development of peer-to-peer support meetings between parents of children in neonatal intensive care unit (NICU) and veteran resource parents who had a previous NICU experience.

Methods: The study had two steps: a needs assessment and a feasibility pilot study. Parental perspectives were investigated using mixed methods.