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Last refreshed on: 12 December 2020
Main ID:  NCT03423914
Date of registration: 18/01/2018
Prospective Registration: No
Primary sponsor: Universidad Industrial de Santander
Public title: Efficacy of Expressive Writing in Mothers of Preterm Infants
Scientific title: Efficacy of Expressive Writing in Mothers of Hospitalized Preterm Infants
Date of first enrolment: October 1, 2017
Target sample size: 60
Recruitment status: Active, not recruiting
URL:  https://clinicaltrials.gov/show/NCT03423914
Study type:  Interventional
Study design:  Allocation: Randomized. Intervention model: Parallel Assignment. Primary purpose: Supportive Care. Masking: Double (Participant, Care Provider).  
Phase:  N/A
Countries of recruitment
Colombia
Contacts
Name:     Martha Camargo, RN-MsC
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Affiliation:  Associate Professor
Key inclusion & exclusion criteria

Inclusion Criteria:

Mothers with:

- Age of 14 or more years old

- Preterm newborns with a gestational age of less than 34 weeks

- Preterm newborns who are hospitalized in the NICU of the third level Hospital of
Santander

- Preterm newborns alive at the time of assignment to the control group or intervention
group

- The time of hospitalization of the newborn must be at least one week at the hospital.

- Nursing Diagnosis Readiness for enhanced parenting (00164)

Exclusion Criteria:

- Limitations as hearing, motor and / or mental disability measured through the
minimenta test.

- Active consumption of psychoactive substances

- Mothers who can not read or write,

- Mothers of newborns with a confirmed diagnosis of severe diseases like congenital
malformations.



Age minimum: 14 Years
Age maximum: 49 Years
Gender: Female
Health Condition(s) or Problem(s) studied
Premature Infant
Mothers
Intervention(s)
Behavioral: Expressive writing
Other: Only Writing
Primary Outcome(s)
Posttraumatic stress [Time Frame: fifth day]
Secondary Outcome(s)
Coping and adaptation [Time Frame: fifth day]
Secondary ID(s)
10620
Source(s) of Monetary Support
Please refer to primary and secondary sponsors
Secondary Sponsor(s)
Ethics review
Results
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