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Effect of Kangaroo Care on Heart Rate Variability

F

Fatih University

Status

Unknown

Conditions

Postnatal Adaptation
Oral Intolerance
Immaturity

Treatments

Behavioral: Kangaroo Care

Study type

Interventional

Funder types

Other

Identifiers

NCT01865409
B 30 FTH 0 20 00 00 / 1503

Details and patient eligibility

About

Physiological processes leading to a preterm infant to be able to feed orally has not been fully understood. The investigators hypothesized that maturation of autonomic nervous system may play a major role in this process and kangaroo care may accelerate this maturation. The investigators will use heart rate variability to measure the maturation of autonomic nervous system.

Enrollment

30 estimated patients

Sex

All

Ages

32 to 35 weeks old

Volunteers

No Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion criteria

  • Premature infants between 32 t0 35 weeks old
  • After 7 days of extra-uterine life

Exclusion criteria

  • Sepsis, infection
  • Cardiac disease
  • Intraventricular hemorrhage, patent ductus arteriosus, necrotizing enterocolitis

Trial design

Primary purpose

Basic Science

Allocation

N/A

Interventional model

Single Group Assignment

Masking

None (Open label)

30 participants in 1 patient group

Kangoroo care
Active Comparator group
Description:
While performing "Kangaroo care" the infant should be held skin-to-skin contact with her mother for 30-60 minutes. The baby, who is naked except for a diaper and a piece of cloth covering his or her back (either a receiving blanket or the parent's clothing), is placed in an upright position against a parent's bare chest. The values of heart rate variability will be measured during and also without Kangaroo Care in the same infants but different times.
Treatment:
Behavioral: Kangaroo Care

Trial contacts and locations

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Central trial contact

Mehmet Kenan Kanburoglu, MD

Data sourced from clinicaltrials.gov

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