Newborn Abdominal Massage to Prevent Hyperbilirubinemia

University of California (UC) Davis

Status: Active, not recruiting

Conditions: Newborn Jaundice

Treatments: Procedure: Abdominal massage; Other: Reading

Study type: Interventional

Funder types: Other; NIH

Identifiers

NCT05282394

K12HD051958 (U.S. NIH Grant/Contract)

1817729

Details and patient eligibility

About

The proposed study will incorporate an intervention previously un-studied in the US healthcare setting for prevention of hyperbilirubinemia

Enrollment: 30 estimated patients

Sex: All

Ages: Under 48 hours old

Volunteers: Accepts Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion criteria

• Newborn admitted to the well newborn/postpartum care unit at UC Davis Medical Center
• Less than 48 hours of age at enrollment

Exclusion criteria

• Infant has already received phototherapy
• Mother/birthing person is incarcerated
• Infant unexpected to discharge into parental care
• Parental inability to speak or read in English
• Infant without parent rooming-in with them in the hospital

Trial design

Primary purpose: Prevention

Allocation: Randomized

Interventional model: Parallel Assignment

Masking: None (Open label)

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30 participants in 2 patient groups

Massage Intervention

Experimental group

Description:

Families will be instructed to provide parent-provided newborn abdominal massage three times per day through 5 days of life

Treatment:

Procedure: Abdominal massage

Attention Control Intervention

Other group

Description:

Families will be provided with information about reading with baby.

Treatment:

Other: Reading