Effect the skin to skin contact on the sleep and waking status of preterm neonate
- Conditions
- Sleep and waking status of preterm neonate.
- Registration Number
- IRCT201109157565N1
- Lead Sponsor
- Vice Chancellor For Research, Tehran University Of Medical Sciences
- Brief Summary
Not available
- Detailed Description
Not available
Recruitment & Eligibility
- Status
- Complete
- Sex
- All
- Target Recruitment
- 70
gestational age of 32-37 weeks according to mother's last period; body weight of neonate at the time of recruitment greater than 1500 grams; don’t consumption of drugs that effect on the sleep and waking cycle of neonate; don’t have illnesses for example: congenital brain malformations, meningitis, seizures, congenital abnormalities, intra ventricular hemorrhage grade III and IV, sepsis; willing of mother for participate in the study.
Exclusion criteria: heart rate greater than 180 beat per minute or less than 100 beat per minute; breathing rate greater than 60 or less than 30 breath per minute; arterial O2 saturation less than %88; need to chest tube, breathing support, central catheter; mother refusing from study.
Not provided
Study & Design
- Study Type
- interventional
- Study Design
- Not specified
- Primary Outcome Measures
Name Time Method Sleep and waking status of preterm neonate. Timepoint: During 20 minutes before the intervention, 70 minutes during intervention and 20 minutes after the intervention. Method of measurement: Observation the behavior of neonate with use of sleep and waking scale of Als, by researcher.
- Secondary Outcome Measures
Name Time Method Do not have. Timepoint: Do not have. Method of measurement: Do not have.