Abstract The study investigated two purposes: identifying kangaroo-mother (KM) attributed relevance by nursing staff from intermediary nursery hospital and analyzing how they linked it to caring process. Beyond the free association and projective technique, we asked 12 health care providers: What does this picture (a mother’s hand touching her baby in the incubator) mean to you? How do you relate it to your providing care? We repeated both questions and afterwards showing the second one (mother’s twins in KM position). […]
