OBJECTIVE. Although low birth weight premature infants and parents are at high risk for
adverse health outcomes, there is a paucity of studies that test early NICU interventions with
parents to prevent the development of negative parent-infant interaction trajectories and to
reduce hospital length of stay. Our objective was to evaluate the efficacy of an educational-
behavioral intervention program (ie, Creating Opportunities for Parent Empowerment) that
was designed to enhance parent-infant interactions and parent mental health outcomes for …