Support offered to newborns’ parents by the nursing team

Abstract Objectives: to know the perception of parents of newborns regarding the support received from the nursing team during their child’s hospitalization. Methods: prospective study. Sample of 127 mothers and fathers of newborns hospitalized for at least 72 hours in neonatal units of a hospital in the southern region of Brazil. Data collected from May to September 2018 through application of a proposed questionnaire and consultation of medical records. Descriptive and analytical statistics were used. Results: participants were aged 28.2 (SD = 6.8) years, mostly composed of mothers (76.4%), primiparous (51.2%). Full support was declared by 66.0% of participants in the appreciative domain and 65.5% in the instrumental, 51.7% in the informational and 46.2% in the emotional domains. Mothers declared they felt supported mainly in the instrumental (p=0.009) and informational (p=0.039) domains. There was a positive correlation between the emotional, appreciative and informational domains (p