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

Not Applicable
Conditions
Premature birth, mother-child relations
M01.060.703.520
C13.703.420.491.500
Registration Number
RBR-8333q9
Lead Sponsor
Faculdade de Medicina da Universidade Federal de Minas Gerais
Brief Summary

Not available

Detailed Description

Not available

Recruitment & Eligibility

Status
Recruitment completed
Sex
Not specified
Target Recruitment
Not specified
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

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

Study & Design

Study Type
Intervention
Study Design
Not specified
Primary Outcome Measures
NameTimeMethod
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 Outcome Measures
NameTimeMethod
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.
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