Warunee Meelai. Effectiveness of comprehensive preterm infant developmental care program on parental self-efficacy, growth and neurobehavioral development of hospitalized preterm infants. Doctoral Degree(Nursing Science). มหาวิทยาลัยบูรพา. สำนักหอสมุด. : , 2565.
Effectiveness of comprehensive preterm infant developmental care program on parental self-efficacy, growth and neurobehavioral development of hospitalized preterm infants
Abstract:
Even after being treated in the neonatal intensive care unit (NICU),
preterm infants are an especially vulnerable population that requires specialized care
to promote their growth and development. The purposes of this mixed-method design
were to develop the Comprehensive Preterm Infant Developmental Care (CPIDC)
program and test its effects on parental self-efficacy, growth, and the neurobehavioral
development of preterm infants during hospitalization. Purposive sampling was used
to recruit participants for the qualitative approach (n = 10) and randomly assigned 46
voluntary dyads of parents and preterm infants to the experimental (n = 23) and
control (n = 23) groups for the quantitative approach. Data was collected in Chon Buri
hospital from April 2021 to January 2022. The experimental group received the
CPIDC program, which consisted of four sessions over one week, and the usual care,
while the control group only received usual care. The digital weight scale, measuring
tape, Neonatal Neurobehavioral Examination (NNE) scale, and the Perceived
Maternal Parenting Self-Efficacy (PMP S-E), were among the research instruments
used to collect data. The inter-rater reliability of NNE was .93. The Cronbachs alpha
reliability of the PMP S-E was .94. Content analysis, descriptive statistics, the chisquare test, the Fisher exact test, the independent t-test, and two-way repeated
measures ANOVA (one-between and one-within) were used to analyze the data.
From the qualitative perspective of parents, the findings revealed that
collaborative participation was the key to success in promoting parental participation
in the developmental care of preterm infants during NICU hospitalization. The
experimental group had significantly higher mean scores for neurobehavioral
development, head circumference gain, length gain, and parental self-efficacy than the control group (F1, 44 = 16.155, p < .001; F1, 44 = 6.125, p < .05, F1,44 = 8.165, p < .01;
F1, 44 = 6.070, p < .05, respectively). However, there was no significant difference in
mean scores of weight gain (F1, 44 = 3.631, p >.05), but there were significantly higher
mean scores of weight gain velocity and growth velocity than the control group on the
28th day from 14th day = 2.407, p < .05 and t = 2.291, p < .05, respectively). The
experimental group had significantly higher mean scores of neurobehavioral
development, growth, and parental self-efficacy at the 14th and 28th days than at the
baseline. This program demonstrated statistically significant enhancements in preterm
infant neurobehavioral development, growth, and parental self-efficacy in the short
term. Therefore, it is recommended that this program be implemented in the NICU.