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Early skin to skin contact: effect on maternal stress and mother-child interaction

Early skin to skin contact: effect on maternal stress and mother-child interaction at 2 and 4 months corrected gestational age

Status
Active, not recruiting
Phases
Unknown
Study type
Interventional
Source
REBEC
Registry ID
RBR-8333q9
Enrollment
Unknown
Registered
2014-11-25
Start date
2010-12-10
Completion date
Unknown
Last updated
2025-10-27

For informational purposes only — not medical advice. Sourced from public registries and may not reflect the latest updates. Terms

Conditions

Premature birth, mother-child relations

Interventions

" Experimental group: 30 newborns were submitted to the method " KMC " for a period from 1 to 3 hours , followed by two afternoons between 24 and 72 hours after birth ( early skin-to- skin) in the Neo
Procedure/surgery
E02.760.670.500

Sponsors

Faculdade de Medicina da Universidade Federal de Minas Gerais
Lead Sponsor
Pós-graduação em Ciências da Saúde - Saúde da Criança e do Adolescente / Universidade Federal de Minas Gerais
Collaborator

Eligibility

Age
1 Days to 3 Days

Inclusion criteria

Inclusion criteria: Preterm newborns with birth weights between one thousand and eighteen hundred grams; preterm newborns stable in terms of respiratory and hemodynamic submitted or not in ventilatory support, between twenty four and seventy two hours of postnatal life; preterm newborns classified as appropriate for gestational age; mothers who did not show signs of psychological change

Exclusion criteria

Exclusion criteria: Preterm newborns with Apgar score less than seven at five minutes of life; newborns with congenital malformations; preterm newborns who had intraventricular hemorrhage and or hydrocephalus

Design outcomes

Primary

MeasureTime frame
The mother-child interaction, assessed by the test still face (vocalization), is different between the exposed and unexposed groups.;The study revealed that children who underwent skin to skin contact during the first 3 days of life (experimental group) responded to the still face with changed of the vocalization, unlike the group that performed later, in the second (p = 0.015), as in the fourth month (p=0.048).—

Secondary

MeasureTime frame
The mothers in the exposed group showed anxiety score assessed by IDATE smaller than the unexposed group.;This study suggests that, although not significant (p = 0.166), there was a reduction of moderate / severe anxiety (16.6%) after second skin to skin contact in the experimental group.—

Countries

Brazil

Contacts

Public ContactCésar Xavier

Faculdade de Medicina da Universidade Federal de Minas Gerais

cesarcxavier@gmail.com+55(31)34099641

Outcome results

None listed

Source: REBEC (via WHO ICTRP)