Preparing parents to care for their preterm children is one of the principal challenges faced by nursing professionals within the neonatal care contexts. This process seeks for parents to acquire the skills to safely provide the differential care required by children at home given their...
Goal. To determine the factors associated with the duration of breastfeeding in mothers of babies cared for in a kangaroo family program. Methods. Quantitative, observational study with a secondary source of a retrospective cohort of 707 babies with monitoring at admission, at 40 weeks, at three and...
Objective. The work’s aim was to comprehend the cultural practices of the care by Zenú indigenous mothers to their newborn premature children and those of low birth weight by implementing the Kangaroo-Mother method at home. Methods. Qualitative study of particularistic ethnographic approach, with part...
Objective. To describe the experiences of parents of hospitalized preterm children regarding the restrictions implemented in the neonatal intensive care unit -NICU- during the COVID-19 pandemic. Methods. Qualitative study. Semi-structured interviews were conducted between April and October 2020 with 12 p...
Objective. Determine the level of environmental and periauricular noise in preterm babies and identify the sources generating noise in the Neonatal Intensive Care Unit -NICU- of a reference hospital in San Luis Potosí, Mexico. Methods. Cross-sectional and analytic study of the measurement of the level o...
Objective. The study sought to describe the experiences of parents of premature children regarding discharge from the neonatal unit. Methodology. This was a qualitative study, in which 10 semi-structured interviews were conducted with parents of premature infants upon discharge from the neonatal unit. Da...
Objective.This work sought to determine the factors associated to uncertainty in parents of preterm newborns hospitalized in neonatal intensive care units (NICU). Methods. This was a cross-sectional analytic study with 117 parents (79 mothers and 38 fathers) of preterm newborns hospitalized in three NICU...
Objective. To describe experiences of mothers caring for their preterm offspring on the first day after being discharged from the hospital. Methodology. This was an interpretative phenomenological study with 10 mothers. Results. Release of the infant from the hospital was interpreted by the mothers as an...
