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The Holding Study: Feeding Analgesia in Preterm Infants

NCT00414258 · Status: COMPLETED · Phase: NA · Type: INTERVENTIONAL · Enrollment: 15

Last updated 2011-04-14

No results posted yet for this study

Summary

The purpose of this study is to compare the effects of mothers' skin-to-skin holding during feeding via a soother trainer with the effects of pacifier sucking on preterm infant biobehavioural responses during and immediately after a painful procedure

Hypothesis:

1. When held by their mothers during blood collection, preterm infants will show less pain reaction than when sucking on a pacifier.
2. Following holding during the blood collection, mothers will find no differences in their infants' feeding ability.

Conditions

Interventions

PROCEDURE

breastfeeding

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Sponsors & Collaborators

  • University of British Columbia

    lead OTHER

Principal Investigators

  • Liisa Holsti, Ph.D · University of British Columbia

Study Design

Allocation
RANDOMIZED
Purpose
TREATMENT
Masking
NONE
Model
PARALLEL

Eligibility

Min Age
3 Days
Sex
ALL
Healthy Volunteers
Yes

Timeline & Regulatory

Start
2006-09-30
Primary Completion
2007-12-31
Completion
2007-12-31

Countries

  • Canada

Study Locations

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