Online Mother-Baby Yoga With Preterm Infants and Their Mothers

Halic University

Status: Completed

Conditions: Anxiety; Development, Infant; Preterm Birth

Treatments: Other: internet-based mother-baby yoga

Study type: Interventional

Funder types: Other

Identifiers

NCT05147480

Online Mother-Baby Yoga

Details and patient eligibility

About

The purpose of this study is to examine the effects of internet-based mother-baby yoga on preterm infants and their mothers.

Full description

Mother-infant pairs were enrolled in the study. Interventions applied as group sessions (maximum of 5 mother-infant pairs) for 6 weeks, once a week. Yoga sessions Before-after evaluations were done for both mother and infant outcomes.

Enrollment: 29 patients

Sex: All

Ages: 6+ weeks old

Volunteers: Accepts Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion criteria

• The infants whose gestational age between 32 0/7-36 6/7 week and corrected age's older than 6 weeks and their mothers
• Caregivers who have at least one smartphone or/and laptop or/and Ipad
• Mothers and their babies who accept to register to the study

Exclusion criteria

• The infants who have a severe pathological sign in cranial screening
• The infants who had IVH
• The infants who have congenital abnormalities
• The infants who have a metabolic or genetic diagnosis
• The infants who have hearing or visual impairment
• The mothers who had chronic depression history and/or mental retardation
• The mothers who have a neurological or orthopedic diagnosis to the contraindication of exercise
• The mothers who are pregnant

Trial design

Primary purpose: Supportive Care

Allocation: Non-Randomized

Interventional model: Parallel Assignment

Masking: None (Open label)

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29 participants in 2 patient groups

yoga group

Active Comparator group

Description:

infants whose gestational ages are between 32-37 weeks and completed the corrected age of the 6th week, and their mothers intervention: 6-week, once a week internet-based mother and baby yoga

Treatment:

Other: internet-based mother-baby yoga

control group

No Intervention group

Description:

infants whose gestational ages are between 32-37 weeks and completed the corrected age of the 6th week, and their mothers the standardized follow-up without intervention