The ongoing Coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic is disrupting most
specialized healthcare services worldwide, including those for high-risk newborns and their …

Family-centered care (FCC) currently takes a greater role in health care, due to the
increasing empowerment parents experience. Within neonatal intensive care units (NICUs) …

Aim This review identifies interventions involving the fathers of preterm infants that have
been tested in neonatal intensive care units (NICU). It examines their effects on the fathers …

Objective To explore how the fathers experience their role as a support for their partner and
the relationship with them during their preterm infant's stay in the NICU. Study design Multi …

Hospitalized preterm infants are exposed to stressful stimuli and early parental separation,
which can undermine their long-term development and mother-infant bonding. Family …

Preterm delivery is a stressful event for mothers, posing them at risk for post-traumatic stress
reactions. This study examined the degree of depressive symptoms and post-traumatic …

Background A few positive effects of mothers' voice on physiological outcomes have been
studied and limited studies have focused on the level of cortisol. In addition, white noise has …

Preterm infants' behavioral state and physiological parameters are affected by
environmental noise and adult voices. Only a handful of studies have explored the effects of …

Introduction Fathers are increasingly recognized as playing a critical role in the family unit
and emotional development of children. The birth of a preterm baby can be confronting, yet …

Although evidence is available about preterm newborns' spontaneous behavioral repertoire
during the first weeks of life in the neonatal intensive care unit (NICU), studies on infant …