Trial reportInternational journal of nursing studies2009
Effect of early skin-to-skin contact on mother-preterm infant interaction through 18 months: randomized controlled trial.
Trial report in International journal of nursing studies, 2009. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. It is linked to trial NCT00917085 (Self-Regulatory Preterm Infant Care), which is not on this map. Cited by 23 papers, 6 of them syntheses that pooled it.
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Self-Regulatory Preterm Infant Care: Adaptation Postbirth
Who cites it
23 citing papers in PubMed, 6 syntheses or guidelines pooled it.
- Impact of kangaroo mother care on maternal postpartum depression: a systematic review and meta-analysis of controlled trials.Pediatric research · 2026Pooled it
- Immediate or early skin-to-skin contact for mothers and their healthy newborn infants.The Cochrane database of systematic reviews · 2025Pooled it
- Effects of kangaroo mother care on maternal and paternal health: systematic review and meta-analysis.Bulletin of the World Health Organization · 2023Pooled it
- Early skin-to-skin contact for mothers and their healthy newborn infants.The Cochrane database of systematic reviews · 2016Pooled it
- Kangaroo mother care to reduce morbidity and mortality in low birthweight infants.The Cochrane database of systematic reviews · 2016Pooled it
- Early skin-to-skin contact for mothers and their healthy newborn infants.The Cochrane database of systematic reviews · 2012Pooled it
- Effects of skin-to-skin contact on full-term infants' stress reactivity and quality of mother-infant interactions.Developmental psychobiology · 2022Trial
- Maternally administered interventions for preterm infants in the NICU: effects on maternal psychological distress and mother-infant relationship.Infant behavior & development · 2014Trial
- Maternal holding of preterm infants during the early weeks after birth and dyad interaction at six months.Journal of obstetric, gynecologic, and neonatal nursing : JOGNNTrial
- Impacts of the Early Collaborative Intervention on mother-preterm infant interaction at one month of age: Secondary analysis of a randomized controlled trial.International journal of nursing studies advances · 2026Article
- Mothers' involvement in providing care for their hospitalised sick newborns in Kenya: a focused ethnographic account.BMC pregnancy and childbirth · 2023Article
- Observational Tools Using Video Recordings of Parent-Child Feeding Interactions: A Narrative Review.Children (Basel, Switzerland) · 2022Review
- Intermittent kangaroo mother care and the practice of breastfeeding late preterm infants: results from four hospitals in different provinces of China.International breastfeeding journal · 2020Article
- An intervention to decrease time to parents' first hold of infants in the Neonatal Intensive Care Unit requiring respiratory support.Journal of perinatology : official journal of the California Perinatal Association · 2020Article
- Mother-Infant Skin-to-Skin Contact: Short- and Long-Term Effects for Mothers and Their Children Born Full-Term.Frontiers in psychology · 2020Article
- A guided participation nursing intervention to theraupeutic positioning and care (GP_Posit) for mothers of preterm infants: protocol of a pilot randomized controlled trial.Pilot and feasibility studies · 2020Article
- Effect of Kangaroo Mother Care on hospital management indicators: A systematic review and meta-analysis of randomized controlled trials.Journal of education and health promotion · 2019Review
- Understanding kangaroo care and its benefits to preterm infants.Pediatric health, medicine and therapeutics · 2015Review
- The effect of kangaroo mother care on mental health of mothers with low birth weight infants.Advanced biomedical research · 2014Article
- The Effects of Skin-to-Skin Contact on Temperature and Breastfeeding Successfulness in Full-Term Newborns after Cesarean Delivery.International journal of pediatrics · 2014Article
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Abstract
backgroundPreterm birth often negatively influences mother-infant interaction. Skin-to-skin contact postbirth has positive effects on maternal feelings toward their preterm infants and on infant development and family interaction. However, little is known about the long-term effects of skin-to-skin contact on mother-late preterm infant interaction when skin-to-skin contact was experienced early postbirth and intermittently throughout the next five days.
objectiveThe purpose of this report was to examine the effect of skin-to-skin contact on mother-late preterm infant interaction through 18 months.
designRandomized controlled trial with follow-up.
settingTwo hospitals in the United States of America.
participants100 mothers and their late preterm infants, 32 to <37 weeks' gestation, were recruited. Mother-preterm infant interactions were assessed in 69, 70, and 76 dyads at 6, 12, and 18 months.
methodsMothers and their preterm infants were videotaped during a feeding session at 6 and 12 months, and a teaching session at 6, 12, and 18 months. Their interactions were then scored using the Nursing Child Assessment Satellite Feeding Scale and Teaching Scale.
resultsSkin-to-skin contact and control dyads had comparable feeding scores at 6 and 12 months. Skin-to-skin contact infants had lower infant teaching scores at six months, a difference that disappeared thereafter.
conclusionsThese inconclusive results call for additional studies with larger doses of skin-to-skin contact, larger sample sizes, and other outcome measures of mother-late preterm infant interactions. Such measures include the Parent-Child Early Relational Assessment and behavioral coding during play.
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