2025-02-212025-02-212024-04-012025-02-21Padilla Muñoz, E.M., Barbancho Morant, M.M.,...,Chacón Moscoso, S. (2025). Dataset of Psycho-emotional intervention with parents of very preterm babies during the first year: A single-arm pilot study. idUS (Depósito de Investigación de la Universidad de Sevilla). https://doi.org/10.12795/11441/169152.https://hdl.handle.net/11441/169152Data collection for this dataset began in Abril 2014, when the first contact was made with families who had a child born prematurely. Contact was initiated with families who were being cared for in the neonatal unit of a tertiary hospital in the city of Seville. Studies of intervention programs that aim to improve the emotional state of parents of children admitted to the neonatal intensive care units (NICU) are scarce in Spain. The aims of this single-arm pilot study are to get to know the emotional profile of parents of high-risk preterm newborns, and to explore parents’ patterns of emotional well-being before and after a psychological program called the Parental Empowerment Program, to increase parental readiness levels. The sample was made up of 100 parents (50 couples) who participated in the program. Measurements were taken of post-traumatic stress, depression and resilience one month and at 12 months. Repeated measurements and dyadic data analyses were performed. One month after the birth of the baby and prior to the start of the program, mothers show more symptoms of stress and depression than fathers. Depending on the kind of variable to relate, t-test, ANOVA and Pearson correlation were applied when the normality assumption (Kolmogorov-Smirnov Z) was met. Wilcoxon, McNemar, Spearman and Kruskal Wallis tests were used when the normal distribution was not accepted. In all cases, Bonferroni correction was applied. Dyadic analysis was carried out for the total scores when the assumption of dependence across couples’ scores was met and an actor–partner interdependence model (APIM). The estimation procedure used was Restricted Maximum Likelihood (REML). We studied the relationship between babies’ clinical variables and parents’ emotional profile in pre-test. Pearson or Spearman correlation were calculated. We contrasted measurements pre and post intervention to check if there was a change in the emotional profile, using paired t-test or Wilcoxon signed ranks test. To study whether the level of prematurity of children influenced parents’ emotional profile, we conducted mixed ANOVA or Kruskal Wallis-tests. Finally, dyadic analysis was carried out to study couples as units. After the intervention, both parents experienced improvements in their mood levels The evidence obtained seems to show that high resilience levels and low post-traumatic stress symptoms are associated with reduced depression levels after implementing the program. However, the heterogeneity of the responses obtained, the observed associations between stress, resilience and maternal depression, along with the reciprocal influence between maternal and paternal depression one year after the intervention, highlight the need for a more in-depth exploration of the interplay between risk and protective factors in this population. Despite the identified potential threats to validity, further work in this direction is recommended, including the implementation of clinical trials to demonstrate intervention efficacy. The adaptation of the parents' mutual emotional adjustment at each stage would allow them to participate more actively in the baby's care.application/vnd.ms-excelspaAttribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 Internationalhttp://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/Estudio piloto de un solo brazoPrograma de intervenciónPadres de bebés muy prematurosEstrésResilienciaDepresión/estrés emocionalSingle-arm pilot studyIntervention programParents of very preterm babiesStressResilienceDepression/emotional distressinfo:eu-repo/semantics/datasetinfo:eu-repo/semantics/embargoedAccesshttps://doi.org/10.12795/11441/169152