title: [Pilot study on stress and resilience in families with premature newborns].
abstract: BACKGROUND
  Prematurity is associated with severe clinical conditions, long hospital stays, and uncertainty about patient outcomes. These circumstances lead to a stressful situation that may affect family functioning. The aim of this study was to study risk and protection factors affecting family functioning in preterm as compared to healthy term infants.
  
  
  METHODS
  Preterm infants with and without pathological conditions (n=40) were recruited at 24 months post-conception age, together with a control group of healthy term newborn infants (n=31). Parents or usual caregivers responded to the Inventory of Family Protection Factors and Parental Stress scales. The results were compared using the Student t test, unidirectional analysis of variance and the Tukey test.
  
  
  RESULTS
  Parents of the control group attained higher scores than those of the preterm group for all the items studied; however, parents of preterm infants with pathological conditions perceived significantly less family resilience and more stress related to the upbringing of their child.
  
  
  CONCLUSIONS
  Prematurity itself is a risk factor for family dysfunction because it causes an elevated degree of parental stress and difficulties in the development of protection factors such as resilience.
authors: Departamento de Psicología Social, Facultat de Psicología, Universitat de Valencia, Valencia, España.
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authors: Escartí
authors: Servicio de Neonatología, Hospital Universitario y Politécnico La Fe, Valencia, España.
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authors: N
authors: Boronat
authors: Departamento de Sociología y Antropología Social, Facultat de Ciencias Sociales, Universitat de Valencia, Valencia, España.
authors: R
authors: R
authors: Llopis
authors: Departamento de Psicología Social, Facultat de Psicología, Universitat de Valencia, Valencia, España.
authors: R
authors: R
authors: Torres
authors: Servicio de Neonatología, Hospital Universitario y Politécnico La Fe, Valencia, España; Red de Salud Materno Infantil y del Desarrollo SAMID (RD12/0026/0012), Instituto de Investigación Sanitaria La Fe , Valencia, España. Electronic address: maximo.vento@uv.es.
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authors: Vento
mesh_terms: D000223:Adaptation, Psychological; D016022:Case-Control Studies; D006801:Humans; D007231:Infant, Newborn; D007234:Infant, Premature; D010290:Parents; D010865:Pilot Projects; D055500:Resilience, Psychological; D013315:Stress, Psychological / Q000453:epidemiology*
keywords: Estrés parental; Factores de protección; Familia; Family; Hospitalización; Hospitalization; Parental stress; Prematuridad; Prematurity; Protection factors; Recompensa; Resilience; Resiliencia; Reward