Effect of "Kangaroo Mother Care" on Premature Infants Physiological Outcomes

Jordan University of Science and Technology

Status: Completed

Conditions: Premature Neonate

Treatments: Other: Kangaroo care approach

Study type: Interventional

Funder types: Other

Identifiers

NCT02919540

26/94/2016

Details and patient eligibility

About

This project aims at testing the effect of applying the KMC on the premature infants' physiological outcomes. The findings of this project are expected to contribute to the discipline of preterm infants' care by providing evidence of the benefits, barriers, and facilities of providing the KMC in our Jordanian NICUs.

Full description

Premature infants are often unable physiologically to adapt well to the stressful environment of the NICU. These neonates are commonly at risk for the development of short and long term outcomes ranging from mild developmental delay to severe disability. The Kangaroo mother care approach (KMC) is developed to minimize the effect of prematurity and the NICU environmental stressors on premature infants. This project aims at assessing the neonatal nurses' knowledge and attitudes of the application of the KMC approach in the neonatal intensive care unit (NICU), testing the effect of applying the KMC on the premature infants' physiological outcomes, and exploring the mothers' lived experiences of providing KMC for their premature infants. The findings of this project are expected to contribute to the discipline of preterm infants' care by providing evidence of the benefits, barriers, and facilities of providing the KMC in our Jordanian NICUs.

Enrollment: 35 patients

Sex: All

Volunteers: Accepts Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion criteria

• all stable preterm or low birth weight infants (stable infants are those who are able to breath unassisted and have no major health problems (WHO, 2003)), weighing more than 1800gm, who are admitted to the NICUs at the time of study and whose mothers consent to participate and willing to practice the KMC with her infant

Exclusion criteria

• high risk preterm or low birth weight infants.

Trial design

Primary purpose: Supportive Care

Allocation: Randomized

Interventional model: Parallel Assignment

Masking: Double Blind

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35 participants in 2 patient groups

kangaroo care approach

Experimental group

Description:

the kangaroo care approach will be implemented for dyads who agree to participate

Treatment:

Other: Kangaroo care approach

control group

No Intervention group

Description:

routine care will be implemented