Supporting Parents of Premature Infants Transitioning from the NICU to Home: A Pilot Randomized Control Trial of a Smartphone Application.

"Financial disclosure The authors have no financial relationships relevant to this article to disclose."

"Funding source All phases of this research were supported by grant # R21 HS20316 to CFG from the Agency for Health Research and Quality."

"The NICU-2-Home study was a randomized controlled trial piloted with all parents of VLBW infants eligible who were ≥ 18 years old, English speaking, caring for a living infant together and willing to be randomized. The study period included the final two NICU weeks (beginning when the infant moved from an isolette to an open crib or 34 weeks, whichever came first), discharge, and two weeks at home; four-weeks in total. Once eligible parents were consented and baseline entry questionnaires were completed, parents were randomized to NICU-2-Home or control using a 1:1 blocked randomization using sealed and numbered envelopes. Couples were assigned to the same arm. The care team was not told (a) parents' decision to participate or (b) their assigned group. The study was registered at clinicaltrials.gov (NCT01987180) with the primary aim of examining parenting self-efficacy and secondary aims of analyzing collected salivary biomarkers currently under review. Our Institutional Review Board approved the study."