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Trial reportJournal of perinatology : official journal of the California Perinatal Association2016

Kangaroo care by fathers and mothers: comparison of physiological and stress responses in preterm infants.

B K Srinath, J Shah, P Kumar, P S Shah

Registry-linked trialAbstract readRandomized Controlled Trial
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Trial report in Journal of perinatology : official journal of the California Perinatal Association, 2016. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. It is linked to trial NCT06170892 (Kangaroo Position in Preterm Newborn Infants Under Oxygen Therapy), which is not on this map. Cited by 12 papers, 1 of them a synthesis that pooled it.

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1 · What the graph read from it

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2 · The registry

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NCT06170892 naunknown statusnot on this mapstarted 2023, after this paper: background citation

Kangaroo Position in Preterm Newborn Infants Under Oxygen Therapy

TypeinterventionalSponsorUniversidade Metodista de PiracicabaRan2023 to 2023Enrolled60ConditionsNewborn MorbidityArmsKangaroo method
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12 citing papers in PubMed, 1 synthesis or guideline pooled it, 82 citations in OpenAlex.

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

4 authors at 1 institution in 2 countries.

B K SrinathNICU, Department of Pediatrics, Mount Sinai Hospital, University of Toronto, Toronto, ON, Canada.
J ShahNICU, Department of Pediatrics, Mount Sinai Hospital, University of Toronto, Toronto, ON, Canada.
P KumarNICU, Department of Pediatrics, Mount Sinai Hospital, University of Toronto, Toronto, ON, Canada.
P S ShahNICU, Department of Pediatrics, Mount Sinai Hospital, University of Toronto, Toronto, ON, Canada.
University of Toronto · CA

Funding

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6 · The paper itself

Abstract

objectiveTo compare physiological and biochemical responses in stable preterm neonates and their parents following kangaroo mother care (KMC) and kangaroo father care (KFC). STUDY

designWe conducted a prospective cross-over design study of stable preterm neonates of <35 weeks gestation in a tertiary Neonatal Unit in Toronto. All neonates received KMC and KFC for 1 h on consecutive days in a random order. Heart rate, temperature, blood pressure, oxygen saturation and salivary cortisol in infants before and after kangaroo care and heart rate, temperature and salivary cortisol in parents before and after kangaroo care were measured. Pairwise comparisons of changes in these measures were analyzed.

resultTwenty-six sets of neonates and their parents were studied for physiological parameters, of which 19 had adequate samples for salivary cortisol assessment. The infants had a mean birth weight of 1096 g (s.d.=217) and a mean postmenstrual age at study of 32 weeks (s.d.=2). There were no significant differences in the changes in mean heart rate (P=0.51), temperature (P=0.37), oxygen saturation (P=0.50), systolic blood pressure (P=0.32), mean blood pressure (0.10) and salivary cortisol (P=0.50) before and after KMC or KFC in the neonates. The changes in mean heart rate (P=0.62), temperature (P=0.28) and salivary cortisol (P=0.59) before and after kangaroo care were similar between mothers and fathers.

conclusionNo significant differences in physiological and stress responses were identified following KMC or KFC in preterm neonates. KFC may be as safe and as effective as KMC.

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Adaptation, PhysiologicalBlood PressureBody TemperatureCross-Over StudiesFathersFemaleHeart RateHumansHydrocortisoneInfant, NewbornInfant, PrematureKangaroo-Mother Care MethodMaleMonitoring, PhysiologicMothersOutcome Assessment, Health CareHydrocortisone

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