The effect of spiritual care on maternal anxiety and physiological parameters of preterm infants
- Conditions
- Condition 1: anxiety. Condition 2: preterm infant.Other preterm infantsGeneralized anxiety disorder
- Registration Number
- IRCT2017041333410N1
- Lead Sponsor
- Vice chancellor for research, Shiraz University of Medical Sciences
- Brief Summary
Not available
- Detailed Description
Not available
Recruitment & Eligibility
- Status
- Complete
- Sex
- Female
- Target Recruitment
- 60
Inclusion Criteria: Being Muslim; having primary school education (minimum); Persian speaking; not having known mental illness based on mother's statements; non-use of antidepressant drug or narcotics based on mother's statements; no history of preterm infant hospitalization in previous pregnancies; not being exposed to any other stressful event in the last 6 months; confirmation of the mother's ability to perform kangaroo care by their physician; having a neonate with a gestational age of at least 28th week to the end of the 36th week; neonate with postnatal age of 3-5 days; absence of any congenital abnormality in neonate; single preterm infant.
Mother's unwillingness to continue cooperation; neonatal death; physical manifestation of any illness in neonate during the study; neonatal need for ventilator during the study.
Study & Design
- Study Type
- interventional
- Study Design
- Not specified
- Primary Outcome Measures
Name Time Method Heart rate. Timepoint: 10 minutes before, during and 10 minutes after kangaroo care. Method of measurement: Pulse oximetry.;Mothers anxiety. Timepoint: Before the intervention, after the end of the intervention. Method of measurement: speilberger anxiety questionnaire.;Respiration rate. Timepoint: 10 minutes before, during and 10 minutes after kangaroo care. Method of measurement: Observation.;Blood oxygen saturation. Timepoint: 10 minutes before, during and 10 minutes after kangaroo care. Method of measurement: Pulse oximetry.
- Secondary Outcome Measures
Name Time Method