Rachel E Lean1, Cynthia E Rogers2, Rachel A Paul3, Emily D Gerstein4. 1. Department of Psychiatry, Washington University School of Medicine, 660 South Euclid Avenue, Campus Box 8504, St. Louis, MO 63110, USA. 2. Department of Pediatrics and Psychiatry, Washington University School of Medicine, 660 South Euclid Avenue, Campus Box 8504, St. Louis, MO 63110, USA. 3. Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology, Washington University School of Medicine, 660 South Euclid Avenue, Campus Box 8219, St. Louis, MO 63110, USA. 4. Department of Psychological Sciences, University of Missouri- St. Louis, 1 University Blvd, St. Louis, MO 63118, USA. Phone 314-516-5398.
Abstract
PURPOSE OF REVIEW: Parents of infants admitted to the Neonatal Intensive Care Unit (NICU) experience psychological distress, loss of the parenting role, and disruptions to parent-infant bonding. The inclusion of evidence-based practices to address these challenges in the NICU has largely been based upon short-term improvements in parent and infant functioning. However, less is known regarding the extent to which family-based interventions may also be associated with longer-term parenting behaviors and children's neurobehavioral outcomes. RECENT FINDINGS: Comprehensive family-based NICU interventions demonstrate consistent links with later parental mental wellbeing, sensitive parenting behaviors, and children's cognitive and socioemotional development. Dyadic co-regulation activities implemented inconsistently and/or in isolation to other components of NICU interventions show mixed associations with outcomes, highlighting the need for multifaceted wrap-around care. Further research is needed to delineate associations between NICU interventions and children's neurological and language development, with follow-up beyond very early childhood in larger samples. SUMMARY: Long-term associations may reflect the stability of early parental responses to NICU interventions and the extent to which parents continue to implement mental health and sensitive parenting techniques in the home. However, the transition of parental psychiatric care from hospital to community-based services upon NICU discharge remains a pertinent need for high-risk families. Remaining issues also concern the extent to which NICU interventions incorporate sociodemographic differences across families, and whether interventions are generalizable or feasible across hospitals. Despite variation across interventions and NICUs; supporting, educating, and partnering with parents is crucial to strengthen longer-term family functioning and alter the developmental trajectories of high-risk infants.
PURPOSE OF REVIEW: Parents of infants admitted to the Neonatal Intensive Care Unit (NICU) experience psychological distress, loss of the parenting role, and disruptions to parent-infant bonding. The inclusion of evidence-based practices to address these challenges in the NICU has largely been based upon short-term improvements in parent and infant functioning. However, less is known regarding the extent to which family-based interventions may also be associated with longer-term parenting behaviors and children's neurobehavioral outcomes. RECENT FINDINGS: Comprehensive family-based NICU interventions demonstrate consistent links with later parental mental wellbeing, sensitive parenting behaviors, and children's cognitive and socioemotional development. Dyadic co-regulation activities implemented inconsistently and/or in isolation to other components of NICU interventions show mixed associations with outcomes, highlighting the need for multifaceted wrap-around care. Further research is needed to delineate associations between NICU interventions and children's neurological and language development, with follow-up beyond very early childhood in larger samples. SUMMARY: Long-term associations may reflect the stability of early parental responses to NICU interventions and the extent to which parents continue to implement mental health and sensitive parenting techniques in the home. However, the transition of parental psychiatric care from hospital to community-based services upon NICU discharge remains a pertinent need for high-risk families. Remaining issues also concern the extent to which NICU interventions incorporate sociodemographic differences across families, and whether interventions are generalizable or feasible across hospitals. Despite variation across interventions and NICUs; supporting, educating, and partnering with parents is crucial to strengthen longer-term family functioning and alter the developmental trajectories of high-risk infants.
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