Aims The first purpose of the study was to examine fathers' spontaneous communicative
behavior with their preterm infants in the neonatal intensive care unit, and how father's and …

Objective This study examined the feasibility of observing mother–child interactions in the
neonatal intensive care unit (NICU), whether NICU interactions related to later interactions …

Background: Parents and their preterm infants (born between 32-37 weeks of gestation) are
often overlooked by the healthcare system. And very little attention is given to the …

Very few studies have assessed infant capacity for bidirectional, contingent communication
at birth, and to our knowledge there are none with preterm infants in the neonatal period …

Aim and objective To describe factors associated with father involvement in the neonatal
intensive care unit using the Heuristic model of the dynamic of parental behaviour and …

Introduction The preterm infants' developmental outcomes depend on biological and
environmental risk factors. The environmental factors include prolonged parental separation …

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 …

The present longitudinal and naturalistic study aims to investigate infants' and fathers' facial
expressions of emotions during pauses preceding and following spontaneous early infant …

This longitudinal and naturalistic study investigated fathers' and infants' emotional
expressions during free infant-father “protoconversation” and the preceding/following …

ABSTRACT Fathers of late‐preterm (34–36 weeks' gestation) infants may experience
challenges in parenting. Late‐preterm infants are more irritable and less responsive in …