Transition from the neonatal unit to home: Parents' educational needs to promote their psychological well-being and sleep quality.

Purpose: Parents may experience altered psychological well-being and sleep following the discharge of their preterm infant. They also perceive a lack of information from healthcare professionals. This study aims to describe the educational needs of parents regarding their psychological well-being and their sleep quality following their infant's discharge from the neonatal unit.

Women's Experiences of Mechanical Balloon Catheter Induction With Self-Traction.

Objective: To explore women's experiences of mechanical labor induction using a balloon catheter with self-traction.

Design: Descriptive qualitative.

Setting: Birth unit of an urban hospital in Quebec, Canada.

Self-Traction During Mechanical Cervical Dilatation, Acceptability, Feasibility and Satisfaction of its Application: A Pilot Study.

This study aims to measure acceptability, feasibility, and satisfaction with self-traction during mechanical cervical dilatation to induce labour and to explore its effects on pain and the process of labour and delivery. 60 parturients were randomly assigned to self-traction or regular traction. Participants completed questionnaires about sociodemographic characteristics, acceptability, and satisfaction.

Research Protocol for Sleep in Families With a Preterm Infant.

Background: Specificities regarding the quality and quantity of sleep of preterm infants and their parents following discharge of the preterm infant from the hospital are not well known. Given this lack of knowledge, the links between the sleep characteristics of these parents, family functioning, and their psychological well-being are also unclear.

Objectives: The purpose of this article is to summarize the research protocol of a cross-sectional, mixed-methods, convergent design study, which aims to evaluate the sleep patterns of preterm infants and both their parents and document the associations between sleep quality, parents' psychological well-being, and family functioning during the posthospitalization period.

Acceptability and feasibility of a digital educational intervention designed to improve the psychological well-being of parents with a preterm infant at the neonatal intensive care unit: A pilot project.

Background: Families experience psychological distress when their preterm infant is in the Neonatal Intensive Care Unit. A tailored educational intervention may be beneficial for their psychological well-being. Unfortunately, existing websites have moderate to low information quality and there is no educational website for French-speaking parents.

Children and pain: Assessment and management according to parents' perspective.

Pain in children is frequent. Parents evaluate their children's pain to decide how to manage it or to share information with caregivers. This qualitative descriptive study aims to identify elements influencing the evaluation and management of pain in children from a parent's perspective.

Understanding factors associated with emotional closeness in parents with a preterm infant in the neonatal intensive care unit.

Background: There is a dearth of knowledge regarding the specific factors associated with emotional closeness in parents with an infant in the NICU.

Aim: To determine if parental presence, involvement in infant care, holding, skin-to-skin contact (SSC), perceived family-centered care, depression symptoms, and sociodemographic characteristics are associated with the emotional closeness of parents with an infant hospitalized at the NICU.

Study Design: This longitudinal descriptive study was conducted in two Canadian level-three NICUs.

Family-centred care and breastfeeding self-efficacy determined how ready mothers were for their infants to be discharged from a neonatal intensive care unit.

Aim: We examined if a range of factors were associated with how ready mothers were for their infants to be discharged from a neonatal intensive care unit (NICU).

Methods: This was a secondary analysis of a study on the well-being of mothers whose infants were hospitalised in the level 3 NICU at the Jewish General Hospital in Canada. We studied 132 mother-infant dyads: 70 from an open ward NICU and 62 from the purpose-built NICU with pods or single-family rooms that replaced it in 2016.

Factors Influencing Mothers' Quality of Sleep during Their Infants' NICU Hospitalization.

Study Objectives: The purpose of this study is to identify factors associated with Neonatal Intensive Care Unit (NICU) mothers' quality of sleep as measured with the General Sleep Disturbance Scale (GSDS).

Methods: Recruitment took place in a level 3 NICU. At enrollment, mothers completed a socio-demographic questionnaire, described their presence in the unit and their breast milk expression behavior.

Emotional Closeness Among NICU Fathers: A Qualitative Descriptive Study.

Background: The unique perspective of fathers with an infant in the neonatal unit on the development of emotional closeness toward their infant is not well understood. The purpose of this study is to explore experiences and instances of emotional closeness from the perspective of fathers as well as factors influencing emotional closeness during an infant's hospitalization in the neonatal unit.

Methods: This qualitative descriptive study employed one-on-one interviews with fathers recruited in a level 3 neonatal unit.

Nursing Interventions to Reduce Stress in Families of Critical Care Patients: An Integrative Review.

Background: Having a family member admitted to an intensive care unit is a stressful experience that may lead to psychological symptoms including depression, anxiety, and posttraumatic stress disorder.

Objective: To better understand the phenomenon of stress experienced by families of intensive care unit patients and identify nursing interventions that may help reduce it.

Methods: An integrative literature review was performed to identify principal stressors for families of patients receiving care in neonatal, pediatric, and adult intensive care units and recommended nursing interventions.

Youngsters' perceptions of the experience of pain and utilisation of over-the-counter pain medication as needed in community: A qualitative study.

Purpose: Pain is common in youngsters. No matter its nature, youngsters' consideration of pain is complex since its communications vary as a function of several components. The aim of this study is to explore the youngsters' perception linked to their experience of physiological pain at the home/family setting, as well as their experience with the utilisation of over-the-counter pain medication as needed.

Effects of Cycled Lighting Versus Continuous Near Darkness on Physiological Stability and Motor Activity Level in Preterm Infants.

Background: Preterm infants generally spend weeks in the neonatal intensive care unit where light intensity can fluctuate as well as be high, leading to physiological instability and increased motor activity in these infants. To date, 2 lighting control methods have been studied: cycled lighting and continuous near darkness. The most appropriate method of lighting is still unknown due to ambivalent results from the studies that have assessed these 2 interventions.

Physiological stability: a concept analysis.

Aim: To present a concept analysis of physiological stability.

Background: Physiological stability is an ubiquitous concept in the literature. However, no operational definition of this concept seems to be clearly established even though a literature review demonstrates multiple uses of the concept.

[Developmental care principle-based concept analysis].

Introduction: Developmental care is a combination of interventions that focused on the adaptation of the neonatal environment to support the development of preterm infants.

Background: Although the concept of developmental care emerges from psychology, its application is integrated into the nursing care of premature infants hospitalized in the neonatal unit.

Objectives: Analysis of developmental care concept has been carried out in order to establish the theoretical foundations and propose a conceptualization according to a nursing perspective.

[What about the NICU lighting?].

NICU lighting is an important element of the environment in which preterm infants continue to develop. Although several researchers have conducted studies on the subject, the existing divergence among the findings and the recommendations of neonatal experts limit the generalization of the results of these studies to guide neonatal clinical practice. While nursing practices are based on evidence and recommendations, it is essential to provide a review of the elements in the literature related to the lighting of the neonatal intensive care units.

[Physiologic stability: a concept analysis].

Physiologic stability is a omnipresent concept in the scientific literature. However, there is a limited number of conceptual definition of this concept in the literature. A concept analysis about physiologic stability is a way to set the theoric basis of this multidimensional concept.