Effect of Kangaroo Care on Heart Rate Variability

Does Kangaroo Care Effects on Heart Rate Variability in Neonates

Status

UNKNOWN

Phases

Study type

Interventional

Source

ClinicalTrials.gov

Registry ID

NCT01865409

Enrollment

Registered

2013-05-30

Start date

2013-06-30

Completion date

2014-09-30

Last updated

2014-09-09

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Conditions

Immaturity, Oral Intolerance, Postnatal Adaptation

Keywords

Newborn, Prematures, Feeding difficulty, Kangaroo Care, Heart rate variability

Brief summary

Physiological processes leading to a preterm infant to be able to feed orally has not been fully understood. The investigators hypothesized that maturation of autonomic nervous system may play a major role in this process and kangaroo care may accelerate this maturation. The investigators will use heart rate variability to measure the maturation of autonomic nervous system.

Interventions

BEHAVIORALKangaroo Care

Kangaroo care is a technique practiced on newborn, usually preterm, infants wherein the infant is held, skin-to-skin, with an adult.

Study design

Allocation

Intervention model

SINGLE_GROUP

Primary purpose

BASIC_SCIENCE

Masking

NONE

Eligibility

Sex/Gender

ALL

Age

32 Weeks to 35 Weeks

Healthy volunteers

Inclusion criteria

* Premature infants between 32 t0 35 weeks old * After 7 days of extra-uterine life

Exclusion criteria

* Sepsis, infection * Cardiac disease * Intraventricular hemorrhage, patent ductus arteriosus, necrotizing enterocolitis

Design outcomes

Primary

Measure	Time frame	Description
HRV-Sympathetic-Short Measurement-LF	5 Minutes	By using Holter monitorization for 24 haur. LF (frequency domain, low frequency measurement): The low-frequency (LF) spectra represents predominantly sympathetic with some parasympathetic influence in the 0.04-to-0.15 Hz range.

Secondary

Measure	Time frame	Description
Time Domain Measurements of HRV	5 Minutes	By using Holter monitorization for 24 haur, 5 different measurements get by 5 minutes heart rate analysis: SDNN, SDANN,SDNN index,Rmssd,pNN50 SDNN: ms, Standard deviation of all NN intervals. SDANN: ms Standard deviation of the averages of NN intervals in all 5 min segments of the entire recording. SDNN index: ms, mean of the standard deviations of all NN intervals for all 5 min segments of the entire recording RMSSD: ms, The square root of the mean of the sum of the squares of diVerences between adjacent NN intervals. pNN50: % NN50 count divided by the total number of all NN intervals

Countries

Turkey (Türkiye)

Contacts

Primary ContactMehmet Kenan Kanburoglu, MD

madduckk@gmail.com+905326685916

Outcome results

None listed

Source: ClinicalTrials.gov · Data processed: Feb 4, 2026