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Effects of Mother-infant Skin-to-skin Contact in Postpartum Women

Department of Nurse-Midwifery and Women Health Graduate Institute of Nurse-Nurse-Midwifery

Status
Completed
Phases
NA
Study type
Interventional
Source
ClinicalTrials.gov
Registry ID
NCT06781307
Enrollment
70
Registered
2025-01-17
Start date
2023-11-24
Completion date
2025-05-31
Last updated
2025-08-14

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Conditions

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Keywords

Sleep quality, maternal confidence, bonding

Brief summary

When a newborn is delivered in good physiological condition, immediate skin-to-skin contact with the mother is required. Skin-to-skin contact has a wide range of benefits for both mother and baby. The implementation time can start from the birth of the newborn and continue until thereafter. There are benefits both in the short and long term, such as physiological stability, parent-child relationship development, and stability of children's behavioral development. There were 108 cases admitted and the attrition rate was 10%. Therefore, the total number of cases admitted was 118, divided into experimental groups and control groups, and intervention measures were implemented in the experimental group. From the 1st to the 30th day after delivery, there is 1 hour of skin-to-skin contact between mother and baby every day. Fill out the Sleep Quality Visual Analog Scale, Maternal Confidence Scale, and Mother-Infant Bonding Scale on the day after delivery and at one month later.

Detailed description

According to the World Health Organization's clinical care guidelines for childbirth, neonatal care in the third stage of labor: When the newborn is delivered in good physiological condition, it needs to have skin-to-skin contact with the mother immediately. Skin-to-skin contact has extensive benefits for both mother and baby. The implementation time can start from the birth of the newborn and continue thereafter. It has benefits in both the short and long term, such as physiological stability, parent-child relationship development, and child behavioral development stability, etc. Therefore, this study was designed as a quasi-experimental study, using a random method to accept cases. The number of admitted cases was 128, and the attrition rate was 10%. Therefore, the total number of admitted cases was 140, divided into experimental groups and control groups, with intervention measures for the experimental group, and intervention measures. From the 1st to 30th day after delivery, there was 1 hour of skin-to-skin contact between mother and baby every day. On the postpartum day and at the full moon, the sleep quality visual analog scale, maternal confidence scale, and mother-infant bonding scale were filled in, and the statistical method was chi-square. Test, independent sample t test, sample t test, Pearson correlation test, simple regression analysis of the relationship between independent variables and dependent variables and the difference between the experimental group and the control group.

Interventions

Intervention measures include 1 hour of skin-to-skin contact between mother and baby every day from day 1 to day 30 postpartum.

Sponsors

Jen-Ai Hospital Institutional Review Board
Lead SponsorINDUSTRY

Study design

Allocation
NON_RANDOMIZED
Intervention model
PARALLEL
Primary purpose
PREVENTION
Masking
SINGLE (Subject)

Eligibility

Sex/Gender
FEMALE
Age
18 Years to No maximum
Healthy volunteers
Yes

Inclusion criteria

1. Vaginal delivery to primiparous women 2. Full-term delivery over 37 weeks 3. The pregnancy and delivery process are low-risk cases 4. Can listen, listen, read and write Chinese 5. Agree to participate in this study 6. No mental condition 7. The newborn's vital signs are stable after birth 8. The body appearance is normal after birth and there are no other complications. 9. Can be discharged from hospital together with mother

Exclusion criteria

(1)Transfer of newborn to sick nursery after birth

Design outcomes

Primary

MeasureTime frameDescription
sleep quity Visual Analogue Scalepostpartum 30 DAYA score of 0 is the worst sleep quality A score Score 10 points for best sleep quality
maternal confidence scalepostpartum 30 DAYA score of 0 means never A score of 1 means very little A score of 2 means sometimes A score of 3 mean often A score of 4 mean always The higher the score, the higher the confidence in parenting.
bonding scalepostpartum 30 DAYA score of 1 represents strongly disagree, A score of 2 means disagreement, A score of 3 means somewhat disagreeing, A score of 4 means somewhat agree, A score of 5 means agreement A score of 6 means strongly agree The higher the score, the closer the emotional connection between mother and baby.

Countries

Taiwan

Outcome results

None listed

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