The Effect of Rocking Bed on Preterm Newborns

Selcuk University

Status: Completed

Conditions: Preterm; Nurse's Role; Preterm Birth

Treatments: Behavioral: rocking bed group

Study type: Interventional

Funder types: Other

Identifiers

NCT05978674

SelcukUnı42Konya

Details and patient eligibility

About

The study was planned to determine the effect of rocking bed applied to preterm newborns on comfort, physiological parameters and cerebral oxygenase level (rSO2).

Full description

In most cultures, providing a newborn baby on the lap or in a rocking bed is mostly used to calm the baby. However, preterm babies who leave the uterus, which is their accustomed environment, in the early period, are positioned on a fixed bed such as an incubator or jeans in the NICU. These beds may reduce the infant's vestibular knowledge and the NICU environment may deprive infants of sensory stimuli. It has been suggested that because the vestibular system is one of the first systems to become functional, preterm infants may be more sensitive to stimulation of the vestibular system than other systems. When the studies were examined, it was seen that limited studies were conducted in the sample of preterm infants and the studies were not recent. Considering that babies are rocked in most cultures, it is thought that the evidence for the effects of the intervention on the baby is insufficient.

Enrollment: 36 patients

Sex: All

Ages: 32 to 37 weeks old

Volunteers: Accepts Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion criteria

• Born at 32-37 weeks of postmenstruel age
• Not receiving mechanical ventilation support,
• Not receiving analgesia or sedative drug therapy,
• Congenital anomaly, intraventricular hemorrhage, meningitis, chromosomal anomalies, cyanotic congenital heart diseases, neonatal seizures and preterm infants without a diagnosis of sepsis

Exclusion criteria

• Infants with diseases that may decrease cerebral oxygenation such as cerebral edema, intraventricular hemorrhage, cerebral hypoxia will be excluded from the study.

Trial design

Primary purpose: Supportive Care

Allocation: Randomized

Interventional model: Crossover Assignment

Masking: Single Blind

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36 participants in 2 patient groups

Experimental Group: rocking bed group

Experimental group

Description:

Preterms in the intervention group will lie in a rocking bed for a consecutive two-hour period without treatment and invasive procedures. During 30 minutes of this period, the rocking bed will be in the rocking mode and will stop at the end of 30 minutes.

Treatment:

Behavioral: rocking bed group

Control Group

No Intervention group

Description:

Newborns in the control group will be followed in a fixed bed (open bed or incubator).