Division of Nursing and Newborn Intensive Care, St Louis Children's Hospital, Missouri (Dr Smith); School of Nursing, University of Connecticut, Nursing Research, Connecticut Children's Medical Center, Hartford (Dr McGrath); School of Nursing and Medicine, University of Missouri Kansas City (Dr Brotto); and Department of Pediatric Newborn Medicine, Brigham and Women's Hospital, Boston, Massachusetts (Dr Inder).
Correspondence: Joan R. Smith, PhD, RN, NNP-BC, Division of Nursing and Newborn Intensive Care, St Louis Children's Hospital, St Louis, MO 63110 ([email protected]).
The authors thank Mary Raney, NNP-BC, Patricia Coffelt, MOT, OTR/L, and Sandy Conner, BS, PT, for actively participating in patient enrollment, intervention delivery, and/or data collection. In addition, we thank the developer of the M Technique, Jane Buckle, PhD, RN, statistician; An-Lin Cheng, PhD, University of Missouri Kansas City, School of Nursing; and the neonatal intensive care unit families and staff for their willingness to participate.
This study was supported in part by the National Association of Neonatal Nurses Small Grants Award and the St Louis Children's Hospital Foundation.
At the time this study was conducted, Dr Inder was with the Department of Pediatrics and Newborn Medicine, Washington University School of Medicine in St Louis, Missouri.
The authors declare no conflict of interest.
