Väitös (lastentautioppi): MD Ryo Itoshima
Aika
14.2.2025 klo 12.00 - 16.00
MD Ryo Itoshima esittää väitöskirjansa ”Effectiveness and implementation fidelity of family-centered care interventions: Close Collaboration with Parents and Couplet Care Model” julkisesti tarkastettavaksi Turun yliopistossa perjantaina 14.02.2025 klo 12.00 (Turun yliopisto, Medisiina D, Alhopuro-sali, Kiinamyllynkatu 10, Turku).
Yleisön on mahdollista osallistua väitökseen myös etäyhteyden kautta: https://echo360.org.uk/section/765f0a35-7969-4d5e-b272-3327906946f7/public (kopioi linkki selaimeen).
Vastaväittäjänä toimii johtaja, MD Terrie Inder (Orangen piirikunnan lastensairaala, Yhdysvallat) ja kustoksena professori Liisa Lehtonen (Turun yliopisto). Tilaisuus on englanninkielinen. Väitöksen alana on lastentautioppi.
Väitöskirja yliopiston julkaisuarkistossa: https://www.utupub.fi/handle/10024/179664 (kopioi linkki selaimeen).
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Tiivistelmä väitöstutkimuksesta:
About 10% of newborns need admission to Neonatal intensive care units (NICUs) to receive essential care and treatment. However, admission to NICUs may cause parent-baby separation and expose the babies to environments that could harm their development. There is a strong need for initiatives to promote parent-baby closeness and parents’ involvement in neonatal care, which is called family-centered care.
Family-centered care has been shown to benefit babies in NICUs, their parents, and neonatal medicine. However, its implementation and sustainability are still challenging. This dissertation includes two interventions that promote family-centered care in NICUs to evaluate their effects on neonatal care practice and babies.
The Close Collaboration with Parents intervention is an educational program for neonatal health care staff, particularly focusing on staff-parent communication. The dissertation research found that family-centered care practices improved after the implementation of the intervention in Estonia. The higher the staff completion rate, the greater the improvements. It was also found that preterm babies were discharged home earlier, got better growth in weight and length, and had less necessity for unscheduled hospital visits after the implementation of the intervention in Finland. A comparison between Finland and Japan suggested that promoting parents’ readiness for discharge may have mediated the effects of the intervention on the babies’ earlier discharge.
The Couplet Care Model is the other intervention, caring for babies and the parents close to each other by optimizing the architecture and care system. The dissertation research found that the first parent-baby skin-to-skin contact happened earlier and parents stayed in the NICU room longer after the introduction of this model in Finland.
The improvement in the staff-parent communication, NICU architecture and care system are the key components of family-centered care to improve outcomes for babies.
Yleisön on mahdollista osallistua väitökseen myös etäyhteyden kautta: https://echo360.org.uk/section/765f0a35-7969-4d5e-b272-3327906946f7/public (kopioi linkki selaimeen).
Vastaväittäjänä toimii johtaja, MD Terrie Inder (Orangen piirikunnan lastensairaala, Yhdysvallat) ja kustoksena professori Liisa Lehtonen (Turun yliopisto). Tilaisuus on englanninkielinen. Väitöksen alana on lastentautioppi.
Väitöskirja yliopiston julkaisuarkistossa: https://www.utupub.fi/handle/10024/179664 (kopioi linkki selaimeen).
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Tiivistelmä väitöstutkimuksesta:
About 10% of newborns need admission to Neonatal intensive care units (NICUs) to receive essential care and treatment. However, admission to NICUs may cause parent-baby separation and expose the babies to environments that could harm their development. There is a strong need for initiatives to promote parent-baby closeness and parents’ involvement in neonatal care, which is called family-centered care.
Family-centered care has been shown to benefit babies in NICUs, their parents, and neonatal medicine. However, its implementation and sustainability are still challenging. This dissertation includes two interventions that promote family-centered care in NICUs to evaluate their effects on neonatal care practice and babies.
The Close Collaboration with Parents intervention is an educational program for neonatal health care staff, particularly focusing on staff-parent communication. The dissertation research found that family-centered care practices improved after the implementation of the intervention in Estonia. The higher the staff completion rate, the greater the improvements. It was also found that preterm babies were discharged home earlier, got better growth in weight and length, and had less necessity for unscheduled hospital visits after the implementation of the intervention in Finland. A comparison between Finland and Japan suggested that promoting parents’ readiness for discharge may have mediated the effects of the intervention on the babies’ earlier discharge.
The Couplet Care Model is the other intervention, caring for babies and the parents close to each other by optimizing the architecture and care system. The dissertation research found that the first parent-baby skin-to-skin contact happened earlier and parents stayed in the NICU room longer after the introduction of this model in Finland.
The improvement in the staff-parent communication, NICU architecture and care system are the key components of family-centered care to improve outcomes for babies.
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