Immigrant families face a variety of obstacles when it comes to healthcare due to social disadvantages, language barriers and fewer support systems. The aim of our project is to evaluate the 9 effect of maternal immigrant status on perceptions of discharge readiness in mothers of preterm infants. We hypothesize that immigrant mothers would perceive less discharge readiness in comparison to native mothers. The Fragile Infant Parent Readiness Evaluation (FIPRE) will be utilized to measure emotional preparedness. The maternal and infant characteristics as well as the FIPRE scores of our two groups will be compared. Based on our findings and the literature, a series of regression models will be run to estimate the effect of maternal immigrant status on the FIPRE scores.
Abdulla, Layla,
"Perceptions of discharge readiness by maternal immigrant status in NICU mothers"
(2017).
Summer Research Symposium.
Brown Digital Repository. Brown University Library.
https://doi.org/10.26300/cxkq-jy77
Each year, Brown University showcases the research of its undergraduates at the Summer Research Symposium. More than half of the student-researchers are UTRA recipients, while others receive funding from a variety of Brown-administered and national programs and fellowships and go …
