{"id":662,"date":"2018-06-14T12:41:05","date_gmt":"2018-06-14T17:41:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sites-dev.williams.edu\/ahane\/?page_id=662"},"modified":"2018-06-18T09:56:48","modified_gmt":"2018-06-18T14:56:48","slug":"family-nurture-intervention-fni","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/sites.williams.edu\/ahane\/family-nurture-intervention-fni\/","title":{"rendered":"Family Nurture Intervention (FNI)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Family Nurture Intervention (FNI) study was developed by Dr. Martha Welch at\u00a0the <a href=\"https:\/\/nurturescienceprogram.org\/what-is-nsp\/\">Nurture Science program<\/a> at Columbia University Medical Center. It is a\u00a0randomized controlled\u00a0clinical trial in the NICU at Morgan Stanley Children\u2019s Hospital, Columbia University Medical Center. The FNI has\u00a0demonstrated that hospital-based family nurture can help prevent or overcome emotional, behavioral and developmental problems in prematurely born infants. The goal of the intervention is to restore a state of co-regulation between mother and infant by facilitating a calming, emotional connection, which serves to improve a mother\u2019s confidence and enhance her maternal behavior. Study results include<\/p>\n<p>increases in infant brain activity in the frontal polar region, enhanced maternal care giving behavior, and reduced levels of maternal\u00a0anxiety and depressive systems.<\/p>\n<div>The Early Experience &amp; Physiology Laboratory\u00a0works in partnership\u00a0with the Nurture Science Program to analyze various aspects of the Family Nurture Intervention (FNI).\u00a0Professor Hane is the director of behavioral coding for the Nurture Science Program. Our lab conducts behavioral analyses on mother-infant\/child interaction and analyzes electrocardiogram data for the NPS. Currently we are expanding on the research from Anika Mitchell\u2019s thesis, including analyzing the\u00a0ecology of the NICU and its impact on maternal biobehavioral stress\u00a0responding.<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Family Nurture Intervention (FNI) study was developed by Dr. Martha Welch at\u00a0the Nurture Science program at Columbia University Medical Center. It is a\u00a0randomized controlled\u00a0clinical trial in the NICU at Morgan Stanley Children\u2019s Hospital, Columbia University Medical Center. The FNI has\u00a0demonstrated that hospital-based family nurture can help prevent or overcome emotional, behavioral and developmental problems [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":67,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-662","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.williams.edu\/ahane\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/662","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.williams.edu\/ahane\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.williams.edu\/ahane\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.williams.edu\/ahane\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/67"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.williams.edu\/ahane\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=662"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/sites.williams.edu\/ahane\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/662\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":670,"href":"https:\/\/sites.williams.edu\/ahane\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/662\/revisions\/670"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.williams.edu\/ahane\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=662"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}