2019 Nursing Solutions Research Grant Winner
Mom is Medicine: Examining Factors Affecting Implementation of Maternal-Delivered Care for Opioid-Exposed Infants
Infants exposed to opioids often require complex treatment and have prolonged hospital stays, costing an estimated $1.5 billion in hospital expenditures. Despite evidence that maternal-delivered care (e.g. breastfeeding, skin-to-skin) improves neonatal outcomes in this situation, initiation and continuation of maternal-delivered care is low. This study will explore system factors affecting maternal care practices of opioid-dependent mothers in order to inform development of implementation strategies tailored to the mother, infant, and system.
Clayton Shuman, PhD, MSN, RN, Assistant Professor - Department of Systems, Populations and Leadership, University of Michigan ,
In collaboration with the University of Michigan School of Nursing, an inter-disciplinary team at UCM will collect data about current practices, test four instruments measuring system factors that are important to implementation, and estimate the effects of system factors on maternal-delivered care practices to help determine the sample needed for a larger scale study and intervention efforts.