Is Skin-to-Skin Care Helpful for Preterm Infants and Their Mothers After Birth?
NCT ID: NCT00917085
Last Updated: 2009-08-10
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Basic Information
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COMPLETED
PHASE1
100 participants
INTERVENTIONAL
1996-07-31
2001-12-31
Brief Summary
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Detailed Description
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Two pilot studies were done with healthy late preterm infants and mothers who planned to breastfeed. Skin-to-skin contact began in the delivery room. The first pilot was a descriptive exploratory study with 10 mother-infant dyads done in Cali, Colombia; skin-to-skin began at birth and lasted through hour 6 when all dyads went to the postpartum ward. Follow-up was through hospital discharge on the second day. All outcomes were positive.
The second pilot was an RCT done in the United States with a well balanced sample of 8 dyads, 4 in each group. Mean observation time lasted 47 hours (Medicaid required discharge time for the mothers) with skin-to-skin contact occurring 84% of the time. All outcomes favored the skin-to-skin group, for example 3.8 days to discharge home compared to 14.5 for the controls. Follow-up was at one year and similarly positive.
Similar differences were hypothesized for the RCT reported here in which the intervention was extended to the care of somewhat smaller and sicker preterm infants and lasted five days unless the infant was discharged sooner. The consent form was in layman terms, four pages long, and fulfilled all the requirements of the Institutional Review Boards of the Bolton School of Nursing at Case Western Reserve University, University Hospitals Case Medical Center and its General Clinical Research Center, and Kadlec Medical Center, Richmond, WA.
Conditions
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Study Design
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RANDOMIZED
PARALLEL
SUPPORTIVE_CARE
NONE
Study Groups
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Control group
Control infants received the same standard care as infants who were not in the study. Infants were kept warm in incubators or warmer beds and were wrapped in blankets when held by their mothers. Hospital staff was responsible for providing standard care.
No interventions assigned to this group
Skin-to-Skin group
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.
Interventions
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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.
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Eligibility Criteria
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Inclusion Criteria
Infants:
* singleton birth
* 32 to 36 completed weeks
* 5-minute Apgar score of 6 or more
* weighed 1300 to 3000 grams
* no birth defects that would interfere with feeding
* healthy enough to experience skin-to-skin contact with their mothers.
Mothers:
* 18 or more years of age
* spoke English
* free of serious drug abuse
* well enough to experience skin-to-skin contact with their infants with assistance if needed.
Exclusion Criteria
* too ill to be with their mothers
* who have a condition that interferes with feeding.
Mothers:
* who are too ill to care for their infant
* are serious drug abusers.
ALL
No
Sponsors
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National Institute of Nursing Research (NINR)
NIH
Responsible Party
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Case Western Reserve University
Principal Investigators
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Gene C Anderson, PhD, RN, FAAN
Role: PRINCIPAL_INVESTIGATOR
Case Western Reserve University
Locations
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University Hospitals Case Medical Center
Cleveland, Ohio, United States
Kadlec Medical Center
Richmond, Washington, United States
Countries
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References
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Moran M, Radzyminski SG, Higgins KR, Dowling DA, Miller MJ, Anderson GC. Maternal kangaroo (skin-to-skin) care in the NICU beginning 4 hours postbirth. MCN Am J Matern Child Nurs. 1999 Mar-Apr;24(2):74-9. doi: 10.1097/00005721-199903000-00006.
Anderson GC, Dombrowski MA, Swinth JY. Kangaroo care: not just for stable preemies anymore. Reflect Nurs Leadersh. 2001;27(2):32-4, 45. No abstract available.
Dombrowski MA, Anderson GC, Santori C, Burkhammer M. Kangaroo (skin-to-skin) care with a postpartum woman who felt depressed. MCN Am J Matern Child Nurs. 2001 Jul-Aug;26(4):214-6. doi: 10.1097/00005721-200107000-00012.
Anderson GC, Chiu SH, Dombrowski MA, Swinth JY, Albert JM, Wada N. Mother-newborn contact in a randomized trial of kangaroo (skin-to-skin) care. J Obstet Gynecol Neonatal Nurs. 2003 Sep-Oct;32(5):604-11. doi: 10.1177/0884217503256616.
Swinth JY, Anderson GC, Hadeed AJ. Kangaroo (skin-to-skin) care with a preterm infant before, during, and after mechanical ventilation. Neonatal Netw. 2003 Nov-Dec;22(6):33-8. doi: 10.1891/0730-0832.22.6.33.
Hake-Brooks SJ, Anderson GC. Kangaroo care and breastfeeding of mother-preterm infant dyads 0-18 months: a randomized, controlled trial. Neonatal Netw. 2008 May-Jun;27(3):151-9. doi: 10.1891/0730-0832.27.3.151.
Chiu SH, Anderson GC. Effect of early skin-to-skin contact on mother-preterm infant interaction through 18 months: randomized controlled trial. Int J Nurs Stud. 2009 Sep;46(9):1168-80. doi: 10.1016/j.ijnurstu.2009.03.005. Epub 2009 Apr 10.
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