Perceived Control in the NICU: Implications for Maternal Mental Health and Parenting in the NICU
Mariana Cerqueira Aokalani, Katherine Leah Wisner, Julius Ngwa, Katherine Marie Ottolini, Nickie Niforatos Andescavage, Catherine Limperopoulos · 2026
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Mariana Cerqueira Aokalani and five co-authors study mothers of preterm babies in a newborn intensive care unit. Their paper, from two thousand twenty-six, asks how a mother's stress shapes how much she does for her baby in the unit. They looked at hands-on care tasks and at simple physical contact, such as holding.
The team studied fifty-one mother and baby pairs. Stress in general, and worry scores, did not predict how much care mothers gave. But stress tied to feeling no control over the baby's care did. Mothers who felt less control did fewer care tasks and had less contact. The authors say giving parents more say may help both mother and baby.
Catalog record
| CREATOR | Mariana Cerqueira Aokalani, Katherine Leah Wisner, Julius Ngwa, Katherine Marie Ottolini, Nickie Niforatos Andescavage, Catherine Limperopoulos |
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| YEAR | 2026 |
| COLLECTION | PAPERS |
| FORMAT | TXT |
| FILE SIZE | 60 KB |
| VERSION | 1.0 |
| LICENSE | CC BY 4.0 |
| RIGHTS | CC BY |
| SOURCE | Europe PMC |