Burris has called on city officials to make the video public sooner and said Perkins' death was indicative of a larger issue in law enforcement, as officers often struggle to calm interactions with the mentally ill.
FNI was implemented by nurture specialists trained to facilitate affective communication between mother and infant during specified calming interactions.
This intervention is facilitated by specially trained Nurture Specialists in three ways: 1) In the isolette through calming interactions between mother and infant via odor exchange, firm sustained touch and vocal soothing, and eye contact; 2) Outside the isolette during holding and feeding via the Calming Cycle; and 3) through family sessions designed to engage help and support the mother.
Although FNI encouraged skin-to-skin holding, which has been shown to decrease LOS in preterm infants [ 13], the intervention also includes interactions not previously well studied in preterm infants (e.g. scent cloth exchange, and repeated novel calming interactions, and family sessions).
However, in order to assess the possibility or extent of unintended alterations in treatment, we have included questionnaires for nursing staff and mothers as well as quantitative measures of the specific calming interactions actually taking place between the mothers and infants in both groups.
Based on the literature and on the extensive clinical experience of the first author, early introduction of repeated mother-infant sensory calming interactions is expected to alleviate maternal depression, anxiety, and guilt, as well as lessen infant aversion to contact that stems from separation/isolation and stressful medical procedures.
Patients were interactive and calm (mean Vancouver Interaction Scale (VICS) [ 22] score: 27.06 (SD: 3.80) (equivalent to 0 or -1 on the Richmond Agitation Sedation Scale (RASS) [ 23]).
Mothers of NICU babies also experience the effects of separation; thus, our intervention is also designed to increase maternal exposure to her infant through the Calming Cycle interactions, with the goal of promoting biological and behavioral effects that are contingent upon normal co-regulatory interactions.
It is our hypothesis that over time, Calming Cycle interactions will lead to more rapid reductions and lower absolute levels of discomfort and distress in both the mother and the infant.
The video shows a calm 17-minute interaction between police officers and 34-year-old Jeff Nielson, followed by a frantic 38-second chase and shooting of the man in Draper, Utah.
