Importance: Parent-infant closeness and active parent participation in neonatal care are
important for parent and infant health. Objective: To give an overview of current neonatal …

Background Parent and infant separation in the neonatal unit is associated with adverse
health outcomes. Family-integrated care has several advantages and the potential to reduce …

Aim Studies have provided insights into factors that may facilitate or inhibit parent–infant
closeness in neonatal units, but none have specifically focused on the perspectives of senior …

Background: Parental involvement in their newborn's neonatal intensive care reduces stress
and helps with the parent-child attachment, transition to home, and future development …

Most critically ill neonates require constant monitoring, continuous care, and supervision.
However, distance created by admission and prolonged stay in a neonatal intensive care …

Background Preterm and sick infants benefit from parent–infant closeness and family‐
centered care (FCC) in neonatal intensive care units (NICUs). Prospective and feasible tools …

Background Active parent participation in neonatal care and collaboration between parents
and professionals during infant hospitalization in the neonatal intensive care unit (NICU) is …

Objective To discover parents' perceptions of closeness to and separation from their preterm
infants in the NICU. Design Qualitative descriptive. Setting Urban Level III NICU. Participants …

Background When a newborn requires neonatal intensive care unit (NICU) hospitalization,
parent and infant experience an unusual often prolonged separation. This critical care …

Aim Little is known about the amount of physical parent–infant closeness in neonatal
intensive care units (NICU s), and this study explored that issue in six European countries …