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Journal of Current Pediatric Research | Volume: 23

March 14-15, 2019 | London, UK

International Conference on

Pediatrics & Neonatal Healthcare

Beyond the NICU-borders

Van Hoestenberghe MR

Ziekenhuis Oost-Limburg, Belgium

evelopmental delay is a high risk for prematurely born

children and has great consequences on their later quality

of life. Working at the NICU for a longer time, one understands

the great burden and stress parents undergo by the premature

birth and how it effects their interaction with the child. Since

good parent-child interaction is an important contributor to the

infant’s neurological development, we continue the parental

support post-dischargebyusingan informativeweb-application.

This application is offered to the parents until the corrected

age of 2 years. We study the parental stress, the support they

seek and whether the web-application has an impact on them

and on the child’s development until the corrected age of 5

years. We also study the difficulties in using the application and

hope to open perspective to other digital systems that could

optimize the support of these fragile children and families.

Speaker Biography

Van Hoestenberghe MR has completed her medical and pediatric studies in July 1992

at the Catholic University of Louvain, Belgium. She is certified in neonatal intensive

care and is working in the NICU of Ziekenhuis Oost-Limburg in Genk since 1993. She is

the actual head of the NICU and member of the Belgian governmental college “Mother

and Child”. She has a special interest in sustained parental support beyond the NICU by

using an age-adapted web-application and participated in the SCENE-group research

concerning parental closeness in the NICU.

Notes:

Van Hoestenberghe MR, Curr Pediatr Res, Volume 23

DOI: 10.4066/0971-9032-C1-011