Impact on family and parental stress of prenatal vs postnatal repair of myelomeningocele

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BACKGROUND: The Management of Myelomeningocele Study was a multicenter, randomized controlled trial that compared prenatal repair with standard postnatal repair for fetal myelomeningocele.

OBJECTIVE: We sought to describe the long-term impact on the families of the women who participated and to evaluate how the timing of repair influenced the impact on families and parental stress.

STUDY DESIGN: Randomized women completed the 24-item Impact on Family Scale and the 36-item Parenting Stress Index Short Form at 12 and 30 months after delivery. A revised 15-item Impact on Family Scale describing overall impact was also computed. Higher scores reflected more negative impacts or greater stress. In addition, we examined Family Support Scale and Family Resource Scale scores along with various neonatal outcomes. Repeated measures analysis was conducted for each scale and subscale.

RESULTS: Of 183 women randomized, 171 women completed the Impact on Family Scale and 172 completed the Parenting Stress Index at both 12 and 30 months. The prenatal surgery group had significantly lower revised 15-item Impact on Family Scale scores as well as familial-social impact subscale scores compared to the postnatal surgery group (P = .02 and .004, respectively). There was no difference in total parental stress between the 2 groups (P = .89) or in any of the Parenting Stress Index Short Form subscales. In addition, walking independently at 30 months and family resources at 12 months were associated with both family impact and parental stress.

CONCLUSION: The overall negative family impact of caring for a child with spina bifida, up to 30 months of age, was significantly lower in the prenatal surgery group compared to the postnatal surgery group. Ambulation status and family resources were predictive of impact on family and parental stress.

Medienart:

E-Artikel

Erscheinungsjahr:

2016

Erschienen:

2016

Enthalten in:

Zur Gesamtaufnahme - volume:215

Enthalten in:

American journal of obstetrics and gynecology - 215(2016), 4 vom: 28. Okt., Seite 522.e1-6

Sprache:

Englisch

Beteiligte Personen:

Antiel, Ryan M [VerfasserIn]
Adzick, N Scott [VerfasserIn]
Thom, Elizabeth A [VerfasserIn]
Burrows, Pamela K [VerfasserIn]
Farmer, Diana L [VerfasserIn]
Brock, John W [VerfasserIn]
Howell, Lori J [VerfasserIn]
Farrell, Jody A [VerfasserIn]
Houtrow, Amy J [VerfasserIn]
Management of Myelomeningocele Study Investigators [VerfasserIn]

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Themen:

Comparative Study
Family impact
Journal Article
Maternal-fetal surgery
Multicenter Study
Myelomeningocele
Parental stress
Randomized Controlled Trial
Spina bifida

Anmerkungen:

Date Completed 28.04.2017

Date Revised 13.11.2018

published: Print-Electronic

Citation Status MEDLINE

doi:

10.1016/j.ajog.2016.05.045

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PPN (Katalog-ID):

NLM26107539X