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Volume 04 Journal of Neonatal & Pediatric Medicine Neonatal Nursing Congress 2018
May 14-15, 2018
May 14-15, 2018 Singapore
30th Global Experts Meeting on
Neonatal Nursing &
Maternal Healthcare
Provision of taped conversationswithneonatologists tomothers of babies in intensive care: Randomized
controlled trial
Tieh Hee Hai Guan Koh
Townsville Hospital, Australia
Objective: To determine whether providing mothers of babies in neonatal intensive care units with audiotapes of their
conversations with a neonatologist improves recall of information and psychological wellbeing.
Design: Randomized, single blinded trial.
Setting: Neonatal intensive care unit, North Queensland, Australia.
Participants: 200 mothers of babies in a neonatal intensive care unit.
Interventions: Mothers given (n=102) or not given (n=98) audiotapes of their conversations with a neonatologist.
Main Outcome Measures: Recall of information, attitudes to and use of the tape, satisfaction with conversations, postnatal
depression, anxiety, general health, and stress about parenting, at 10 days and 4 and 12 months.
Results: 91% (n=93) of mothers in the tape group listened to the tape (once by day 10, twice by four months, and three times
by 12 months; range 1-10). At 10 days and four months, mothers in the tape group recalled significantly more information
about diagnosis, treatment, and outcome than mothers in the control group. At four months mothers in the tape group were
75%more likely to recall all of the information about treatment than mothers in the control group (59% vs. 34%; risk ratio 1.75,
95% confidence interval 1.27 to 2.4). Six mothers, all in the control group, could not recall their conversations. No statistically
significant differences were found between the groups in satisfaction with conversations (10 days), postnatal depression and
anxiety scores (10 days, four and 12 months), and stress about parenting (12 months).
Conclusion: Providing the mothers of babies in neonatal intensive care units with audiotapes of conversations with a
neonatologist enhanced their recall of information (up to four months). The taped conversations did not affect the mothers’
wellbeing or satisfaction with the neonatologist.
Neonat Pediatr Med 2018, Volume 4
DOI: 10.4172/2572-4983-C1-003