Background patient satisfaction as an indicator of quality of care is becoming more and more
important. The use of questionnaires is the most common method to evaluate satisfaction …

Objective Parental perception of a child vulnerability (PPCV) to illness, not justified by
medically noticeable symptoms, is a situation well known to medical and paramedical staff. It …

Problem Parental stress in the neonatal intensive care unit (NICU) has been reported,
however identifying modifiable stress factors and looking for demographic parent factors …

Aim: The study explored fathers' experience of premature birth during the hospitalization of
their infants, analyzing levels of depressive and anxiety symptoms as compared with …

Objective Labour and birth experiences are of great importance since these can have
positive, but also negative effects on women's health and wellbeing. This is the first study …

Objective To examine the predictive value of parent, infant, and contextual factors related to
preterm childbirth for later parenting behaviors. Methods Mothers (n= 217) and fathers (n …

This study examined the contribution of birth circumstances (premature and full‐term birth)
and individual and spousal factors (attachment orientations, parental self‐efficacy and …

Objective. Relatively few studies have examined stability and/or change in the quality of
parenting behaviors across the first years of a preterm infant's life and how this course may …

Purpose: The study investigated maternal experiences of caring for a child affected by
neurological impairment after neonatal encephalopathy (NE)(“birth asphyxia”) in Uganda …

This study aims to evaluate the influence of fathers' negative feelings, parenting stress and
post-traumatic symptomatology experienced after the premature birth of their infant …