Effectiveness of Family Integrated Care in neonatal intensive care units on infant and parent outcomes

Effectiveness of Family Integrated Care in neonatal intensive care units on infant and parent outcomes: a multicentre, multinational, cluster-randomised controlled trial
Lancet Child and Adolescent Health 7 February 2018 DOI: https://doi.org/10.1016/S2352-4642(18)30039-7

• The Family Integrated Care (FICare) programme is a pragmatic approaches to enable parents to become primary caregivers in the neonatal intensive care unit (NICU). In this multicentre RCT across 26 tertiary NICUs in Canada, Australia, and New Zealand parents were present for at least 6 h a day, attend educational sessions, and actively care for their infant. 
• FICare was found to significantly improve infant weight gain, decrease parent stress and anxiety, and increase high-frequency exclusive breastmilk feeding at discharge. 
• There were no significant differences between groups in the rates of the secondary outcomes of mortality, major morbidity, duration of oxygen therapy, and duration of hospital stay.