Effect of Skin-to-skin Contact on Interaction and Parents' Sleep (Neo-SIPaS)

Linköping University (LiU)

Status

Terminated

Conditions

Stress Reaction

Sleep Quality

Communication

Treatments

Behavioral: Continuous skin-to-skin contact

Other: Standard Care

Study type

Interventional

Funder types

Other

Identifiers

NCT03004677

Linkoeping University

Details and patient eligibility

About

This study evaluates the effect of a late intervention of continuous skin-to-skin contact (SSC) in the neonatal intensive care unit (NICU). Half of the participants will receive the intervention and the other half will receive standard care.

Full description

The intervention is based on a method developed to facilitate closeness and human touch between parents and preterm infants in neonatal intensive care. Continuous skin-to-skin contact (SSC) means, in this study, that the late preterm infant is cared for skin-to-skin on the parents' chest, instead of in a heating-bed, 24 hours a day. The parents will take turns to care for the infant in SSC.

Enrollment

11 patients

Sex

All

Volunteers

No Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion criteria

Parents staying at the NICU with a single preterm infant born <33 weeks of gestation
The family should have been transferred to family-room from intensive care
Swedish speaking parents

Exclusion criteria

Infants with major congenital malformation,
Infants with intraventricular hemorrhage grade III-IV
Infants with chromosome defect that could affect the infant´s ability to interact.
Parents with sleeping disorder
Parents with psychiatric problem or drug use.