Staff opinions regarding the Newborn Individualized Developmental Care and Assessment Program (NIDCAP)

Early Human Development

Volumn 83, Issue 7, 2007, Pages 425-432

  van der Pal, Sylvia M ^a   Maguire, Celeste M ^a   Cessie, Saskia Le ^a   Veen, Sylvia ^a   Wit, Jan Maarten ^a   Walther, Frans J ^a   Bruil, Jeanet ^b  

^a LEIDEN UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (Netherlands)

^b TNO   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Developmental care; ; NIDCAP; ; Staff opinion; ; Theory of planned behavior

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CHILD DEVELOPMENT; CHILD HEALTH; DEVELOPMENTAL CARE; HEALTH PERSONNEL ATTITUDE; HEALTH PROGRAM; HUMAN; MEDICAL STAFF; NETHERLANDS; NEWBORN CARE; NEWBORN INTENSIVE CARE; NURSING STAFF; PARAMEDICAL PERSONNEL; THEORY OF PLANNED BEHAVIOR; TRAINING; WELLBEING;

ATTITUDE OF HEALTH PERSONNEL; CHILD DEVELOPMENT; HEALTH PLAN IMPLEMENTATION; HUMANS; INFANT, NEWBORN; INTENSIVE CARE UNITS, NEONATAL; INTENSIVE CARE, NEONATAL; MEDICAL STAFF, HOSPITAL; NEONATAL NURSING; NURSING ASSESSMENT; NURSING STAFF, HOSPITAL; PERSONNEL, HOSPITAL; PROGRAM EVALUATION; QUESTIONNAIRES; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIALS;

EID: 34249340835     PISSN: 03783782     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.earlhumdev.2007.03.007     Document Type: Article

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