Call for research participants
CAN YOU HELP?
PARTICIPANTS REQUIRED FOR RESEARCH PROJECT
We are helping with the recruitment of participants for a research project regarding the continuation of care and parental experience of complex premature babies – during their transition from NICU to home. Details are below plus in this PDF if you wanted to print off and/or send to someone who may meet the criteria.
If you are a parent, or know of another, who is over 18yrs of age and the infants care has been discharged from a Level 3 NICU within the past 3 years and:
- delivered less than 34 weeks gestation, and
- discharged from home care services within the past 12 months, and
- 1 or more piece of equipment for medical home monitoring, and
- more than 1 medication
Please email Helen.Fairless@whitireianz.ac.nz or call 021 239 7223 for more information
Click here for a PDF about this (for downloaded and/or printing)
SUPPORTING RESEARCH
One of the three core objectives of The Little Miracles Trust is to aid neonatal-related medical research. The Little Miracles Trust is proud to do so, as it creates enhanced outcomes for thousands of future neonatal babies. Note: All research we support has appropriate ethics sign off.
To read more on a number of different research studies that are in action / have occured in New Zealand, you can do so here: littlemiraclestrust.org.nz/research
Our support of research occurs in a range of different ways, including:
- Helping to raise awareness and find research participants ** See below for a request current as at the start of November 2018 **
- Direct financial support to help research occur
- Working with organisations to help enable more research
Support Us
If you want to help our support of families going through the stress and anxiety of a neonatal journey, you can donate via the link below.
- The Little Miracles Trust provides support to families of premature or sick full-term babies as they make their journey through Neonatal Intensive Care, the transition home, and onwards. We do not receive any Government funding and are entirely reliant on the generosity of individuals, companies and organisations in the form of donations, value-in-kind donations, grants, sponsorship and fundraising events to supplement operating costs and fund our services and initiatives.
- As we are a registered charity (CC56619) with Charities Services New Zealand we will send you an IRD compliant tax receipt – this will happen automatically by return email.