Family Nurture Intervention in the Neonatal Intensive Care Unit improves social-relatedness, attention, and neurodevelopment of preterm infants at 18 months in a randomized controlled trial

Background Preterm infants are at high risk for adverse neurodevelopmental and behavioral outcomes. Family Nurture Intervention (FNI) in the Neonatal Intensive Care Unit (NICU) is designed to counteract adverse effects of separation of mothers and their preterm infants. Here, we evaluate effects of...

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Published in:Journal of child psychology and psychiatry 2015-11, Vol.56 (11), p.1202-1211
Main Authors: Welch, Martha G., Firestein, Morgan R., Austin, Judy, Hane, Amie A., Stark, Raymond I., Hofer, Myron A., Garland, Marianne, Glickstein, Sara B., Brunelli, Susan A., Ludwig, Robert J., Myers, Michael M.
Format: Article
Language:English
Subjects:
Adult
At Risk Persons
Attention
Autism
Bayley
Bayley Scales of Infant Development
Behavior
Behavior Rating Scales
Check Lists
Checklists
Child Behavior
Child Behavior Checklist
Child Behaviour Checklist
Child Development
Child Development - physiology
Child psychology
Childbirth & labor
Children
Clinical trials
Cognitive Development
Comparative Analysis
Control Groups
Emotional-Behavioural problems
Experimental Groups
Family (Sociological Unit)
Family Programs
Female
High risk
Humans
Infant
Infant, Newborn
Infant, Premature - psychology
Infant, Premature, Diseases - prevention & control
Infants
Intensive care
Intensive Care Units, Neonatal
Intensive treatment
Intervention
Language Skills
M-CHAT
Male
Mother-Child Relations - psychology
Mothers
Neonatal care
Neonatal units
Neonates
Neurological Impairments
Neurological Organization
Neuropsychology
Nurture
Parent Child Relationship
Premature babies
Premature Infants
Psychotherapy - methods
Randomized Controlled Trials
Relatedness
Scores
Side effects
Social Development
Toddlers
Treatment Outcome
Young Children
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Summary:Background Preterm infants are at high risk for adverse neurodevelopmental and behavioral outcomes. Family Nurture Intervention (FNI) in the Neonatal Intensive Care Unit (NICU) is designed to counteract adverse effects of separation of mothers and their preterm infants. Here, we evaluate effects of FNI on neurobehavioral outcomes. Methods Data were collected at 18 months corrected age from preterm infants. Infants were assigned at birth to FNI or standard care (SC). Bayley Scales of Infant Development III (Bayley‐III) were assessed for 76 infants (SC, n = 31; FNI, n = 45); the Child Behavior Checklist (CBCL) for 57 infants (SC, n = 31; FNI, n = 26); and the Modified Checklist for Autism in Toddlers (M‐CHAT) was obtained for 59 infants (SC, n = 33; FNI, n = 26). Results Family Nurture Intervention significantly improved Bayley‐III cognitive (p = .039) and language (p = .008) scores for infants whose scores were greater than 85. FNI infants had fewer attention problems on the CBCL (p 
ISSN:0021-9630
1469-7610
DOI:10.1111/jcpp.12405