Impact of Standardized Skin-to-Skin Care on Clinical Outcomes in Infants Born ≤ 32 Weeks: A Multicenter Study
Status: Recruiting
Location: See location...
Intervention Type: Behavioral
Study Type: Interventional
Study Phase: Not Applicable
SUMMARY
Objective: To evaluate the rate of receiving exclusive mothers' milk at discharge for infants born ≤ 32 weeks of gestation who have received skin-to-skin care in accordance with the study protocol. 2. Secondary Objective: To evaluate the rates of neonatal sepsis, intraventricular hemorrhage, and necrotizing enterocolitis (stage 2 and above) as well as the length of hospital stay for infants born at or below 32 weeks of gestation who have received skin-to-skin care in accordance with the study protocol.
Eligibility
Participation Requirements
Sex: All
Minimum Age: 1 day
Healthy Volunteers: f
View:
• Infants born at gestational age ≤ 32 weeks
Locations
Other Locations
Turkey
Baskent University
RECRUITING
Ankara
Contact Information
Primary
Sezin Unal, Prof, MD
sezinunal@gmail.com
00905324008018
Time Frame
Start Date: 2024-09-01
Estimated Completion Date: 2025-06-01
Participants
Target number of participants: 120
Treatments
No_intervention: Pre education
The infants born at less than 32 weeks and discharged from the units in the last two months before training.
Active_comparator: Post education
The infants born at less than 32 weeks and discharged between four to six months after training
Related Therapeutic Areas
Sponsors
Collaborators: Ankara University, Trakya University, Ondokuz Mayıs University, Sanliurfa Harran University, Konya City Hospital, Hacettepe University, Cumhuriyet University, Gazi University, Kocaeli University, Aydin Adnan Menderes University, Ege University, Marmara University, Umraniye Education and Research Hospital, Uludag University, Cukurova University, Baskent University
Leads: Baskent University Ankara Hospital