Content Validity, Feasibility, and Acceptability of the Neurosense PremmieEd Programme, a South African Premature Parenting Education Intervention for the NICU Parent: A Hybrid Focus Group Discussion Method.
Highlights: What are the main findings? The NeuroSense PremmieEd programme was adapted for South African NICU parents using a hybrid focus group method and found to be feasible, acceptable, and culturally relevant. Iterative feedback from mothers, clinicians, and experts led to improvements in conte...
| Publicado en: | Children Vol. 12; no. 11; pp. 1502 - 1515 |
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