Role of skin to skin contact(KMC) by the mother in comparison with incubator care in the care of a newborn baby with birth weight less than 1500grams
Not Applicable
Completed
- Conditions
- Health Condition 1: null- Stable Very low birth weight infants.
- Registration Number
- CTRI/2012/04/002599
- Lead Sponsor
- Fernandez Hospital
- Brief Summary
Not available
- Detailed Description
Not available
Recruitment & Eligibility
- Status
- Completed
- Sex
- Not specified
- Target Recruitment
- 140
Inclusion Criteria
Inborn singleton, VLBW (birth weight <1500g) infants, tolerating spoon feeds of 150ml/kg/day and hemodynamically stable (not on oxygen or respiratory support, no apnea for 72 hrs, not on any intravenous fluids)
Exclusion Criteria
Infants with major malformations
Study & Design
- Study Type
- Interventional
- Study Design
- Not specified
- Primary Outcome Measures
Name Time Method weight gain per day after randomization till 40 weeks of postmenstrual ageTimepoint: weight gain per day after randomization till 40 weeks of postmenstrual age
- Secondary Outcome Measures
Name Time Method weight gain from randomization to discharge, proportion of babies on exclusive breast feeding and any breast feeding, duration of hospitalization and number of hospital days after randomization, duration of NICU StayTimepoint: At discharge from Hospital and at 40 weeks of PMA