Infant, Newborn
Conditions
Brief summary
Bathing is essential for maintaining and improving the health of the newborn. It has numerous beneficial effects, such as cleaning and protecting the skin, preventing infections, cleaning unwanted substances, regulating blood circulation and the respiratory system, regulating body temperature, relieving pain, providing comfort, and supporting the parent-infant bond. Although bathing has many benefits, it is a stressful experience for newborn babies. Research on the effects of bathing on babies has shown that babies experience behavioral difficulties during bathing, such as crying, restlessness, hiccups, yawning, tremors, body looseness, looseness of the extremities, facial looseness, opening of fingers, and grimacing. Bathing may also lead to some physiological responses, such as hypothermia, hypoxia, dyspnea, cyanosis, desaturation, and tachycardia.Therefore, this study aimed to determine the effect of palmar grasp reflex stimulation during neonatal bath on the physiological parameters and crying time of the newborn.
Interventions
The palmar grasp reflex is an involuntary flexion-adduction movement involving the hands and fingers.
Sponsors
MSc Elif Simay KOÇ
Ataturk University
Study design
Allocation
RANDOMIZED
Intervention model
PARALLEL
Primary purpose
SUPPORTIVE_CARE
Masking
TRIPLE (Subject, Investigator, Outcomes Assessor)
Eligibility
Sex/Gender
ALL
Age
2 Days to 28 Days
Healthy volunteers
Yes
Inclusion criteria
* At least 24 hours after birth * have a gestational age over 36 * not be asphyxiated * Feeding at least 1-3 hours before bathing * Not receiving analgesic sedation before bathing * Stable vital signs
Exclusion criteria
• Ineligible for immersion tub bathing
Design outcomes
Primary
| Measure | Time frame |
|---|---|
| Body temperature in Celsius | 12 week |
| Respiratory rate per minute | 12 week |
| Pulse per minute | 12 week |
| Oxygen saturation levels in % | 12 week |
| Crying time in seconds | 12 week |
Countries
Turkey (Türkiye)
Outcome results
None listed