Publications

Articles

  1. Lehtonen L, Lilliesköld S, De Coen K, Toome L, Gimeno A, Caballero S, Tameliene R, Laroche S, Retpap J, Grundt H, Van Hoestenberghe MR, Skene C, Pape B, Axelin A; Separation, Closeness Experiences in Neonatal Environment (SCENE) research group. Parent-infant closeness after preterm birth and depressive symptoms – a longitudinal study. Front Psychol. 2022;13.
  2. Kainiemi E, Flacking R, Lehtonen L & Axelin A. Psychometric Properties of an Instrument to Measure the Quality of Family Centered Care in NICUs. J Obstet Gynecol Neonatal Nurs. 2022; 51(4): 461-472. 
  3. Lebel V, Feeley N, Campbell-Yeo M & Axelin A. Understanding Factors Associated with Emotional Closeness in Parents with a Preterm Infant in the Neonatal Intensive Care Unit. Early Hum Dev. 2022;173:105664.
  4. Lebel V, Feeley N, Goselin E & Axelin A. Emotional closeness among NICU fathers: A qualitative descriptive study. Adv Neonatal Care. 2021 Jun 16.
  5. Flacking R, Haslund-Thomsen H, Jónsdóttir R, Poropudas S & Axelin A. Parents’ friends and families in neonatal intensive care units: A cross-national qualitative study on staff perceptions and experiences. J Clin Nurs. 2021; 31, 3120– 3129. 
  6. Axelin A, Feeley N, Cambell-Yeo M, Silnes Tandberg B, Szczapa T, Wielenga J, Weis J, Pavicic Bosnjak A, Jonsdottir RB, George K, Blomqvist YT, Bohlin K, Lehtonen L; Separation, Closeness Experiences in Neonatal Environment (SCENE) research group. Symptoms of depression in parents after discharge from NICU associated with family-centred care. J Adv Nurs. 2021;78, 1676– 1687.
  7. Provenzi L, Lindstedt J, De Coen K, Gasparini L, Peruzzo D, Grumi S, Arrigoni F, Ahlqvist-Björkroth S. The Paternal Brain in Action: A Review of Human Fathers’ fMRI Brain Responses to Child-Related Stimuli. Brain Sciences. 2021; 11(6):816.
  8. Tandberg Silnes B, Frøslie Frey Kathrine, Flacking R, Grundt H, Lehtonen L, Moen A. Parent-Infant Closeness, Parents’ Participation, and Nursing Support in Single-Family Room and Open Bay NICUs. The Journal of Perinatal & Neonatal Nursing 2018; 32(4):p E22-E32. ​
  9. Thomson G, Flacking R, George K, Feeley N, Haslund-Thomsen H, De Coen K, Schmied V, Provenzi L & Rowe J. Parents’ experiences of emotional closeness to their infants in the neonatal unit: A meta-etnography. Early Human Development 2020, 105-155.
  10. Thomson G & Balaam M-C. Sharing and modifying stories in neonatal peer support: an international mixed‐methods study. Scandinavian Journal of Caring Sciences doi: 10.1111/scs.12895
  11. Thomson G & Balaam M-C. International insights into peer support in a neonatal context: A mixed-methods study. PLoS ONE 2019;14(7): e0219743.
  12. Liu LX, Mozafarinia SM, Axelin A & Feeley N. Parents’ Experience of Support in the Single-Family Rooms of a Combined Pod and Single-Family Room NICU. Parents’ Experiences of Support in NICU Single-Family Rooms. Neonatal Netw. 2019 Mar 1;38(2):88-97.
  13. Aija A, Toome L, Axelin A, Raiskila S, Lehtonen L. Parents’ presence and participation in medical rounds in 11 European neonatal units, Early Hum Dev. 2019;130:10-16.​
  14. Mäkelä H, Axelin A, Feeley N & Niela-Vilén H. Clinging to closeness: The parental view on developing a close bond with their infants in a NICU, Midwifery, 2018;62:183-188.
  15. Bujold M, Feeley N, Axelin A & Cinquino C. Expressing Human Milk in the NICU: Coping Mechanisms and Challenges Shape the Complex Experience of Closeness and Separation, Adv Neonatal Care 2018;18(1):38-48.​
  16. Treherne S, Feeley N, Charbonneau L & Axelin A. Closeness and Separation between Parent and Infant in the Neonatal Intensive Care Unit: Parent Perspectives, J Obstet Gynecol Neonatal Nurs. 2017;46(5):737-747
  17. Raiskila S, Axelin A, Toome L, Caballero S, Silness Tandberg B, Montirosso R, Normann E, Hallberg B, Ewald U & Lehtonen L. Parents’ Presence and Parent–Infant Closeness in 11 NICUs in 6 European Countries, Acta Paediatrica 2017;106(6):878-888..​
  18. Niela-Vilén H, Feeley N & Axelin A. Hospital routines promote parent-infant closeness and cause separation in the birthing unit in the first two hours after birth – a pilot study, Birth 2017;44(2):167-172.
  19. Raiskila S, Lehtonen L, Silnes Tandberg B, Nordmann E, Ewald U, Caballero S, Varendi H, Toome L, Nordhov M, Hallberg B, Montirosso R, Westrup B & Axelin A. Parent and Nurse Perceptions on the Quality of Family-Centered Care in 11 European NICUs, Australian Critical Care 2016;29(4):201-209. ​​
  20. Feeley N, Genest C, Niela-Vilén H, Charbonneau L, Axelin A. Parents and nurses balancing parent-infant closeness and separation: a qualitative study of NICU nurses’ perceptions, BMC Pediatr. 2016;16(1):134.
  21. Flacking R, Thomson G & Axelin A. Pathways to emotional closeness in neonatal units – a cross-national qualitative study, BMC Pregnancy and Childbirth 2016;19;16(1):170.
  22. Dykes F, Thomson G, Gardner C, Hall Moran V & Flacking R. 2016. Perceptions of European medical staff on the facilitators and barriers to physical closeness between parents and infants in neonatal units, Acta Paediatrica 2016;105(9):1039-46.
  23. Thomson G, Hall-Moran V, Axelin A, Dykes F & Flacking R. Integrating a Sense of Coherence into Neonatal Care, BMC Pediatrics 2013;13(1):84. 
  24. Flacking R, Lehtonen L, Thomson G, Axelin A, Ewald U, Dykes F and SCENE group. Closeness and separation in the neonatal intensive care unit. Review, Acta Paediatrica 2012;101(10), 1032-1037.

PhD thesis

  1. Simo Raiskila, PARENT-INFANT CLOSENESS AND FAMILY-CENTERED CARE IN NEONATAL INTENSIVE CARE, Annales Universitatis Turkuensis, 2018.