Status:
COMPLETED
Is Skin-to-Skin Care Helpful for Preterm Infants and Their Mothers After Birth?
Lead Sponsor:
National Institute of Nursing Research (NINR)
Conditions:
Moderate to Late Prematurity
Eligibility:
All Genders
Phase:
PHASE1
Brief 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...
Detailed Description
A similar intervention was studied in a RCT with fullterm infants but this was done with emphasis on close contact rather than skin-to-skin contact and lasted only the first 6 hours postbirth. This st...
Eligibility Criteria
Inclusion
- Mother and Infant Dyads
- 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
- Infants:
- 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.
Key Trial Info
Start Date :
July 1 1996
Trial Type :
INTERVENTIONAL
Allocation :
ACTUAL
End Date :
December 1 2001
Estimated Enrollment :
100 Patients enrolled
Trial Details
Trial ID
NCT00917085
Start Date
July 1 1996
End Date
December 1 2001
Last Update
August 10 2009
Active Locations (2)
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1
University Hospitals Case Medical Center
Cleveland, Ohio, United States
2
Kadlec Medical Center
Richmond, Washington, United States