Effects of Oral Stimulation in Preterm Infants

CEU San Pablo University

Status and phase: Completed; Phase 3

Conditions: Eating Disorder; Premature Infant

Treatments: Other: Oral manual stimulation of feeding in preterm infants

Study type: Interventional

Funder types: Other

Identifiers

NCT03911674

CEU-0013

Details and patient eligibility

About

Preterm infants with gestational age inferior to 34 weeks were included in the study. A prospective experimental group received the oral stimulation protocol and the effects of the intervention were compared with a historical control group that did not receive any oral stimulation intervention.

The study hypothesis is that oral stimulation in preterm infants has beneficial effects on the feeding performance, the length of hospitalization and anthropometric variables, including weight at discharge, height at discharge and head circumference at discharge.

Enrollment: 48 patients

Sex: All

Ages: Under 7 days old

Volunteers: No Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion criteria

• Preterm infants with gestational age inferior to 34 weeks

Exclusion criteria

• Instability caused by respiratory, cardiac or gastrointestinal issues
• Orofacial malformations.

Trial design

Primary purpose: Treatment

Allocation: Non-Randomized

Interventional model: Parallel Assignment

Masking: None (Open label)

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48 participants in 2 patient groups

Oral stimulation

Experimental group

Description:

Oral stimulation protocol: manual stimulation of the oral sucking

Treatment:

Other: Oral manual stimulation of feeding in preterm infants

Control

No Intervention group

Description:

No intervention