Date of Award
2022
Document Type
Critically Appraised Topic
Department
Occupational Therapy
First Advisor
Anne Haskins
Second Advisor
Breann Lamborn
Third Advisor
Gail Bass/Devon Olson Lambert
Abstract
John et al.’s (2018) study found that over half of the mothers in the NICU suffer from moderate to severe anxiety. This anxiety negatively impacts parents’ abilities to engage in the occupation of caring for their child, which can have long-term consequences. Currently, there is a lack of research on occupational therapy-specific interventions that focus on reducing parental stress in the NICU setting. The purpose of this critically appraised topic (CAT) is to discover which stress-reducing occupational therapy interventions have a positive impact on the abilities of parents to successfully care for their infants in the NICU.
Recommended Citation
Landreville, Ann; Greenmyer, Annah; and Murden, MaKayla, "Effective Occupational Therapy Interventions for Reducing Parental Stress in the Neonatal Intensive Care Unit" (2022). Critically Appraised Topics. 40.
https://commons.und.edu/cat-papers/40