Impact of a Psychological Post-hospital Intervention Aimed at Facilitating Parents-child Attachment and Preventing the Preterm Infants' Psycho-emotional, Social and Cognitive Disturbances
Impact of a Psychological Post-hospital Intervention Aimed at Facilitating Parents-child Attachment and Preventing the Preterm Infants' Psycho-emotional, Social and Cognitive Disturbances
The aim of this study was to assess the impact of an early psychological intervention, Triadic parent-infant Relationship Therapy (TRT), on parenting stress, parental mental health, and preterm infant development in the motor, cognitive, emotional and behavioral domains at a corrected age of 18 months.
Due to prematurity induced infant-mother separation at birth, sometimes for several weeks, and owing to the concerns it generates, preterm birth exposes the parent-child attachment link to disturbances, especially the mother-child attachment after discharge. Several psychological factors affect infant (distress, dysmaturity ) and parents (psychological pain). These can cause lasting parent-child interactions disruption and jeopardize the attachment process. These early link distortions may hinder the infant's behavioral-emotional and cognitive development. Prematurity psychological consequences may negatively influence biomedical risks. Understanding these premature infants' future development modalities and support involves taking into account intricate organic and psychological factors - which may be combined as well.
Post-hospital psychological intervention with the family, focusing on parental mental health and triadic parent-infant relationship, proves an essential element in these children care, whose birth conditions were painful.
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