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Is Skin-to-Skin Care Helpful for Preterm Infants and Their Mothers After Birth?

NCT00917085 · Status: COMPLETED · Phase: PHASE1 · Type: INTERVENTIONAL · Enrollment: 100

Last updated 2009-08-10

No results posted yet for this study

Summary

To see if infant outcomes will improve when mothers are helped to hold their preterm infants skin-to-skin as soon as possible after birth and as often as possible and for as long as possible each time during the next five days.

Conditions

  • Moderate to Late Prematurity

Interventions

BEHAVIORAL

Skin-to-Skin contact

Infants in the Skin-to-Skin group also had standard care provided by hospital staff. In addition, the researchers facilitated skin-to-skin contact by placing diaper-clad infants prone between their mothers' breasts as soon as possible after birth. Thereafter the infants and their mothers experienced skin-to-skin contact as often as possible and for as long as possible each time throughout the protocol.

Sponsors & Collaborators

  • National Institute of Nursing Research (NINR)

    lead NIH

Principal Investigators

  • Gene C Anderson, PhD, RN, FAAN · Case Western Reserve University

Study Design

Allocation
RANDOMIZED
Purpose
SUPPORTIVE_CARE
Masking
NONE
Model
PARALLEL

Eligibility

Sex
ALL
Healthy Volunteers
No

Timeline & Regulatory

Start
1996-07-31
Primary Completion
2001-12-31
Completion
2001-12-31

Countries

  • United States

Study Locations

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