Measurement tools for parental stress, anxiety and post-traumatic stress symptoms after NICU stay: a systematic review

The files provide detailed information on the measurement tools used to assess parental mental health, including their validation and cut-off values, as well as characteristics of the included studies, reported prevalence rates and risk factors for parental mental health outcomes. The supplementary material also contains the complete search strategies for PubMed and EMBASE and the PRISMA 2020 checklist.

Together, these files provide additional methodological details and study-level data supporting the systematic review. Supplementary File A: Overview of the measurement tools used to assess parental mental health following NICU admission and discharge, including study characteristics, assessment time points, validation information and applied cut-off values. Supplementary File B: Detailed characteristics of the studies included in the systematic review, including parent and infant characteristics, eligibility criteria, follow-up time points, reported risk factors and prevalence of parental mental health outcomes.