Educational Methods to Improve the Ability of Parents to Provide Developmental Care For Premature Infants: A Literatur Review

Abstract

Babies born prematurely are at risk of experiencing visual disturbances, hearing loss, disabilities, the risk of infection and even death. Care for premature babies requires serious attention for both health workers and parents. The role of parents is very important both during hospitalization and at home. Therefore, in order to improve the abilities of parents, it is necessary to make educational efforts with the right method.ObjectivesThis literature review aims to provide an overview of educational methods that nurses can use to improve the ability of parents to care for or care for the development of premature babies. The method used is to search for literature that fits the established theme using 5 data based, namely Scopus, ProQuest, Science Direct, Elsevier Clinicaly for Nursing and Web of Science. The strategy used in finding literature that fits the theme and is used in this literature review uses the PICOS framework. Then conducted a review with the PRISMA method. The literature selection results obtained 572 publications, after going through the selection obtained 11 literatures that match the theme, with 11 educational methods. These methods can be grouped into ideas, namely increasing parental involvement during treatment, using technology, stress management and continuous monitoring. The ability of parents to care for premature babies is needed in order to minimize complications in infants, reduce morbidity, avoid disabilities, increase growth and development of premature babies optimally and reduce parental stress levels, increase parental confidence and good parents' self-efficacy. Choosing the right educational method can improve the ability of parents to properly care for and provide developmental care for premature babies.

Educational programme to implement skin-to-skin contact for preterm infants in the intensive care units: Qualitative Study

“…This is also seen in South African context and in the North West Province (NWP) where infants born too early die due to a lack of feasible and cost-effective care [5]. Many educational and training efforts have been explored and employed by some countries and has been shown to improve parents' perception, value, competency and comfort with their preterm infants [13,14]. The implementation is observed to be poor or non-existent in the North West health facilities.…”

“…A randomized controlled trial conducted in Iran on continuous education and monitoring during treatment at home using Stockholm preterm interaction-based intervention (SPIBI) and Creating Opportunities for Parent Empowerment (COPE) found positive results on parent-child interaction, child development, and children participation in preschool [14]. There is, however, increasing interest in the programme that implement SSC for parents and their preterm infants in the intensive care units.…”