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The Effect of Smelling the Scent of Infants Hospitalized in the Neonatal Intensive Care Unit

NCT07074197 · Status: COMPLETED · Phase: NA · Type: INTERVENTIONAL · Enrollment: 60

Last updated 2025-07-25

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Summary

The study was conducted to determine the effect of having mothers with infants in the neonatal intensive care unit smell their baby's odor with OOKIE dolls on stress, attachment and perception of insufficient milk.

Conditions

  • NICU

Interventions

OTHER

OOKIE doll

The infants who met the selection criteria were wrapped with OOCIE upon admission and remained in contact with OOCIE for approximately 24 hours without affecting their routine care and position. After 24 hours, when the mother came for the first visit, the mother and baby introductory information form, Neonatal Intensive Care Unit Parent Stress Scale, Inadequate Milk Perception Scale, Mother-Infant Attachment Scale and NICU Parental Beliefs Scale pretest were administered. During the visit, the mother received the OOKIE wrapped around her baby in the incubator and stayed with the mother for 3 days and the mother could smell her baby's odor whenever she wanted.

Sponsors & Collaborators

  • T.C. ORDU ÜNİVERSİTESİ

    lead OTHER

Principal Investigators

  • Dilek Küçük Alemdar, professor · T.C. ORDU ÜNİVERSİTESİ

Study Design

Allocation
RANDOMIZED
Purpose
SUPPORTIVE_CARE
Masking
TRIPLE
Model
PARALLEL

Eligibility

Min Age
18 Years
Max Age
55 Years
Sex
FEMALE
Healthy Volunteers
Yes

Timeline & Regulatory

Start
2022-06-15
Primary Completion
2023-05-30
Completion
2023-07-15

Countries

  • Turkey (Türkiye)

Study Locations

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