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Feasibility and effects of developmental care in the Dutch NICU setting

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Behavioral and school disabilities are often seen in preterm infants at later ages. There is reason to assume that these disabilities are partly caused by excessive handling of preterm infants after birth, noise and light exposure as well as separation from the parents. Perinatal brain injury, the early NICU experience and the parent-child relationship influence the development of the premature child in a complex transactional process. Developmental care aims to attenuate these potential harmful effects of the NICU environment. The Newborn Individualized Developmental Care and Assessment Program (NIDCAP) provides a clinical framework and training to implement developmental care. Studies in the United States and Canada suggest that developmental care improve medical, as well as neurodevelopmental outcome. An increase of the parent's participation in care as well as the job satisfaction of the NICU nurses and a 15% decrease in hospital stay is reported. Whether these guidelines are feasible and the effects of developmental care are reproducible in a Dutch NICU setting given a different nurse education and health system remains to be shown. The aim of our study is to compare developmental care in the Dutch NICU with the usual NICU care. It is hypothesized that developmental care improves the well being of the child, that parents will feel less stressed and more supported, that the NICU staff will experience more job satisfaction and that implementation will be cost effective.

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Projectnummer:
22000125
Looptijd: 100%
Looptijd: 100 %
2003
2008
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Projectleider en penvoerder:
Dr. N. Weisglas-Kuperus
Verantwoordelijke organisatie:
Sophia Kinderziekenhuis