The DOI matches its Crossref record; 57 of the 60 references it cites were found in a registry or an index.
Mothers and fathers in NICU: The impact of preterm birth on parental distress
Open accessAbstract
Preterm birth is a stressful event for families. In particular, the unexpectedly early delivery may cause negative feelings in mothers and fathers. The aim of this study was to examine the relationship between preterm birth, parental stress and negative feelings, and the environmental setting of NICU. 21 mothers (age = 36.00 ± 6.85) and 19 fathers (age = 34.92 ± 4.58) of preterm infants (GA = 30.96 ± 2.97) and 20 mothers (age = 40.08 ± 4.76) and 20 fathers (age = 40.32 ± 6.77) of full-term infants (GA = 39.19 ± 1.42) were involved. All parents filled out the Parental Stressor Scale: Neonatal Intensive Care Unit, the Impact of Event Scale Revised, Profile of Mood States, the Multidimensional Scale of Perceived Social Support and the Post-Partum Bonding Questionnaire. Our data showed differences in emotional reactions between preterm and full-term parents. Results also revealed significant differences between mothers and fathers' responses to preterm birth in terms of stress, negative feelings, and perceptions of social support. A correlation between negative conditions at birth (e.g., birth weight and Neonatal Intensive Care Unit stay) and higher scores in some scales of Impact of Event Scale Revised, Profile of Mood States and Post-Partum Bonding Questionnaire were found. Neonatal Intensive Care Unit may be a stressful place both for mothers and fathers. It might be useful to plan, as soon as possible, interventions to help parents through the experience of the premature birth of their child and to begin an immediately adaptive mode of care.
Overview
The claims and statistics of this paper haven’t been checked yet.
Run the check — free, no account needed. It reads the open-access text and checks the sources it cites.
Integrity signals
Registry
Cites
Statistics
Verification
Claims the paper makes
The claims and statistics of this paper haven’t been checked yet.
Run the check — free, no account needed. It reads the open-access text and checks the sources it cites.
Claims other papers make about this one
Each is checked against this paper’s own text: does it say what the citing paper says it does?
The check wasn’t confident either way, so it gives no verdict — never disputed.
In the citing paper
“Since mothers often spend more time in the NICU and experience immediate trauma, maternal postpartum depression is a strong predictor of paternal anxiety and depression [59].”
From Fathers at risk: Effects of threatened and actual preterm birth on the course of paternal peripartum depression and anxiety (2026) · cites this paper as [59]
Experimental — accuracy not yet measured
Self-check
Percentages, sums and reported differences re-computed from the paper’s own numbers.
The self-check needs the paper’s full text.
Citations
Cites
The Multidimensional Scale of Perceived Social Support
Zimet, G. D., Dahlem, N. W., Zimet, S. G., & Farley, G. K. (1988) · Journal of Personality Assessment · doi:10.1207/s15327752jpa5201_2 · Cited by 13,339
Psychometric Characteristics of the Multidimensional Scale of Perceived Social Support
Zimet, G. D., Powell, S. S., Farley, G. K., Werkman, S., & Berkoff, K. A. (1990) · Journal of Personality Assessment · doi:10.1080/00223891.1990.9674095 · Cited by 4,855
The Impact of Event Scale: Revised
Weiss, D. S. (2007) · Springer eBooks · doi:10.1007/978-0-387-70990-1_10 · Cited by 3,074 · cited 8×
“i) Abbreviations used in the text: Neonatal Intensive Care Unit (NICU); Impact of Event Scale Revised (IES-R); Profile of Mood States (POMS); Multidimensional Scale of Perceived Social Support (MSPSS); Post Partum Bonding Questionnaire (PBQ); Parental Stressor Scale: Neonatal Intensive Care Unit (PSS:NICU); gestationa…”
BackgroundInfluentialShort Form of the Profile of Mood States (POMS-SF): Psychometric information.
Curran, S. L., Andrykowski, M. A., & Studts, J. L. (1995) · Psychological Assessment · doi:10.1037//1040-3590.7.1.80 · Cited by 808
Feldman, R., Eidelman, A. I., Sirota, L., & Weller, A. (2002) · PEDIATRICS · doi:10.1542/peds.110.1.16 · Cited by 634
Vigod, S., Villegas, L., Dennis, C., & Ross, L. (2010) · BJOG: An International Journal of Obstetrics & Gynaecology · doi:10.1111/j.1471-0528.2009.02493.x · Cited by 594
The Postpartum Bonding Questionnaire: a validation
Brockington, I. F., Fraser, C., & Wilson, D. (2006) · Archives of Women's Mental Health · doi:10.1007/s00737-006-0132-1 · Cited by 568 · cited 10×
“i) Abbreviations used in the text: Neonatal Intensive Care Unit (NICU); Impact of Event Scale Revised (IES-R); Profile of Mood States (POMS); Multidimensional Scale of Perceived Social Support (MSPSS); Post Partum Bonding Questionnaire (PBQ); Parental Stressor Scale: Neonatal Intensive Care Unit (PSS:NICU); gestationa…”
BackgroundInfluentialParental Stressor Scale: Neonatal Intensive Care Unit
MILES, M. S., FUNK, S. G., & CARLSON, J. (1993) · Nursing Research · doi:10.1097/00006199-199305000-00005 · Cited by 561
Lefkowitz, D. S., Baxt, C., & Evans, J. R. (2010) · Journal of Clinical Psychology in Medical Settings · doi:10.1007/s10880-010-9202-7 · Cited by 468 · cited 4×
“…negative states of mind and feelings, such as anxiety, hostility, inertia, depression, and bewilderment, and stress related to the NICU perception, the baby’s conditions and the perception of an altered parental role (Ionio & Di Blasio, 2014; Lefkowitz et al., 2010; Müller-Nix & Ansermet, 2009).”
BackgroundMethodInfluentialThe development and significance of father-child relationships in two-parent families.
Lamb, M. E., & Lewis, C. N. (2004) · Lancaster EPrints (Lancaster University) · Cited by 372
Research works printed but not linked: 5
- Clottey, 2013, Post-traumatic stress disorder and neonatal intensive care., The International Journal of Childbirth Education, 23
- 10.1037/1040-3590.7.1.80 · DOI · Paper page
- Müller-Nix, C., & Ansermet, F. (2009). Prematurity, risk and protective factors. In C. H. Zeanah, Jr. (Ed.), Handbook of infant mental health (3rd ed.). New York, NY, USA: The Guilford Press.
- Prezza, M., & Principato, M. P. (2002). La rete sociale e il sostegno sociale. In M. Prezza & M. Santinello (Eds.), Conoscere la comunità. Bologna, Italy: Il Mulino.
- Sameroff, A. J., & Chandler, M. J. (1975). Reproductive risk and the continuum of caretaking casualty. In F. D. Horowitz, E. M. Hetherington, S. Scarr-Salapatek, & G. Siegel (Eds.), Review of child development research (Vol. 4, pp. 187-243). Chicago, IL, USA: University of Chicago Press.
Cited by
Sorted by citations
A global perspective on parental stress in the neonatal intensive care unit: a meta-analytic study
Caporali, C., Pisoni, C., Gasparini, L., Ballante, E., Zecca, M., Orcesi, S., & Provenzi, L. (2020) · Journal of Perinatology · doi:10.1038/s41372-020-00798-6 · Cited by 200
“37] Ionio C, 2016 [69] osl Fathers 19 0.”
BackgroundBonding in neonatal intensive care units: Experiences of extremely preterm infants’ mothers
Fernández Medina, I. M., Granero-Molina, J., Fernández-Sola, C., Hernández-Padilla, J. M., Camacho Ávila, M., & López Rodríguez, M. D. M. (2018) · Women and Birth · doi:10.1016/j.wombi.2017.11.008 · Cited by 192
Stress and feelings in mothers and fathers in NICU: identifying risk factors for early interventions
Ionio, C., Mascheroni, E., Colombo, C., Castoldi, F. M., & Lista, G. (2019) · Primary Health Care Research & Development · doi:10.1017/s1463423619000021 · Cited by 151
“…prevent parents from immediately taking care of their newborn children (Feldman et al ., 1999; Goldberg and DiVitto, 2005; Axelin et al. , 2010; Ionio et al ., 2016a) and this may lead parents to experience higher level of stress, mostly because of parental role marginalization (Montirosso et…”
Self-citationTrends in Neonatal Intensive Care Unit Utilization in a Large Integrated Health Care System
Braun, D., Braun, E., Chiu, V. Y., Burgos, A. E., Gupta, M., Volodarskiy, M., & Getahun, D. T. (2020) · JAMA Network Open · doi:10.1001/jamanetworkopen.2020.5239 · Cited by 112
Lewis, T. P., Andrews, K. G., Shenberger, E., Betancourt, T. S., Fink, G., Pereira, S., & McConnell, M. A. (2019) · BMC Pregnancy and Childbirth · doi:10.1186/s12884-019-2363-y · Cited by 110
Metadata
- Authors
- Ionio, C., Colombo, C., Brazzoduro, V., Mascheroni, E., Confalonieri, E., Castoldi, F., & Lista, G.
- Affiliations
- Università Cattolica del Sacro Cuore (IT)
- Ospedale dei Bambini Vittore Buzzi (IT)
- Corresponding author
- Ionio, Chiara
- ORCID
- Venue
- Europe’s Journal of Psychology
- Published
- 2016-11-18
- Volume
- 12
- Issue
- 4
- Pages
- 604-621
- ISSN
- 1841-0413 (ISSN-L)
- PMC
- PMC5114875
- OpenAlex
- W2550032293
- Cited by
- 347
- References
- 60
- Citations by year
- 2026: 30 · 2025: 27 · 2024: 56 · 2023: 52 · 2022: 40 · 2021: 41 · 2020: 40 · 2019: 28 · 2018: 19 · 2017: 13 · 2016: 1
- FWCI
- 23.66
- Type
- journal article
- Language
- en
- Open access
- diamond
- doi.org
- Licence
- cc-by
- Locations
- Europe’s Journal of Psychology (publishedVersion, cc-by)
- PubMed Central (publishedVersion, cc-by)
- PubMed (publishedVersion)
- DOAJ (DOAJ: Directory of Open Access Journals) (submittedVersion, cc-by-sa)
- PsychOpen Gold (Leibniz Institute for Psychology) (submittedVersion, cc-by)
- Psychology Archives (cc-by)
- Topics
- Health Sciences › Medicine › Pediatrics, Perinatology and Child Health › Infant Development and Preterm Care
- Health Sciences › Medicine › Public Health, Environmental and Occupational Health › Maternal Mental Health During Pregnancy and Postpartum
- Social Sciences › Psychology › Clinical Psychology › Family and Disability Support Research
- Keywords
- preterm birth, parental stress, parents, neonatal intensive care unit, negative emotions, perceived social support, postpartum bonding, birth weight, term infants, family stress
About these checks
Registry, retraction, Cites and statistics results are computed, not judged, with one exception: a printed reference that no index lists is read once by a model before it counts as a citation error. Claims are extracted by a model and kept only when their quote appears verbatim in the text; each cited source is then checked, with a model’s help, for whether it says what the claim relies on. Those verdicts can be wrong — read the claim’s quote and the cited source before relying on one.
Statistics and arithmetic are recomputed, not judged.
Confidence bands are shown only for fields calibrated on our annotated test set. None is calibrated yet, so no band is shown.
What counts as a claim ›How we measure confidence ›How we check this ›
Are you an author, or do you see a problem with this page? Request a review
