Trial reportBMC pediatrics2017
Effectiveness of skin-to-skin contact versus care-as-usual in mothers and their full-term infants: study protocol for a parallel-group randomized controlled trial.
Trial report in BMC pediatrics, 2017. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. It is linked to trial NCT04425096 (The Effect of Skin to Skin Contact on Postpartum Hemorrhage, Pain And Breastfeeding), which is not on this map. Cited by 23 papers.
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The Effect of Skin to Skin Contact on Postpartum Hemorrhage, Pain And Breastfeeding: Randomized Controlled Trial
Who cites it
23 citing papers in PubMed.
- Effects of daily full-term infant skin-to-skin contact on behavior and cognition at age three - secondary outcomes of a randomized controlled trial.Journal of child psychology and psychiatry, and allied disciplines · 2023Trial
- Effects of skin-to-skin contact on full-term infants' stress reactivity and quality of mother-infant interactions.Developmental psychobiology · 2022Trial
- Daily mother-infant skin-to-skin contact and maternal mental health and postpartum healing: a randomized controlled trial.Scientific reports · 2022Trial
- Daily skin-to-skin contact in full-term infants and breastfeeding: Secondary outcomes from a randomized controlled trial.Maternal & child nutrition · 2022Trial
- Probiotics as a treatment for prenatal maternal anxiety and depression: a double-blind randomized pilot trial.Scientific reports · 2021Trial
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- Factors affecting feeding choices in infants and toddlers in northern Jordan: A cross-sectional study.PloS one · 2026Article
- Differences in parental stress in mothers and fathers of preterm infants: A prospective study in Poland.European journal of midwifery · 2025Article
- Parents' Perception and Use of Skin-to-Skin Care in Jeddah, Saudi Arabia: A Cross-Sectional Study.Cureus · 2024Article
- The Role of Skin-to-Skin Contact and Breastfeeding in the First Hour Post Delivery in Reducing Excessive Weight Loss.Children (Basel, Switzerland) · 2024Article
- Impact of Early Bonding During the Maternal Sensitive Period on Long-Term Effects: A Systematic Review.Cureus · 2024Review
- Breastfeeding Practices and Postpartum Depression in Mexican Women during the COVID-19 Pandemic: A Cross-Sectional Study.Medicina (Kaunas, Lithuania) · 2023Article
- Digital Health Technologies for Maternal and Child Health in Africa and Other Low- and Middle-Income Countries: Cross-disciplinary Scoping Review With Stakeholder Consultation.Journal of medical Internet research · 2023Article
- The association between intrapartum interventions and immediate and ongoing breastfeeding outcomes: an Australian retrospective population-based cohort study.International breastfeeding journal · 2022Article
- Survey of Skin-to-Skin Contact with Obstetrics and Pediatric Nurses.Nursing reports (Pavia, Italy) · 2022Article
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- Birth Experience, Postpartum PTSD and Depression before and during the Pandemic of COVID-19 in Russia.International journal of environmental research and public health · 2021Article
- Coverage and factors associated with mother and newborn skin-to-skin contact in Nigeria: a multilevel analysis.BMC pregnancy and childbirth · 2021Article
- Kangaroo mother care practice, knowledge, and perception among NICU nurses in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia.International journal of pediatrics & adolescent medicine · 2021Article
- Preeclampsia and Its Complications Exacerbate Development of Postpartum Depression: A Retrospective Cohort Study.BioMed research international · 2021Article
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Abstract
backgroundTwenty-to-forty percent of women experience postpartum depressive symptoms, which can affect both the mother and infant. In preterm infants, daily skin-to-skin contact (SSC) between the mother and her infant has been shown to decrease maternal postpartum depressive symptoms. In full-term infants, only two studies investigated SSC effects on maternal depressive symptoms and found similar results. Research in preterm infants also showed that SSC improves other mental and physical health outcomes of the mother and the infant, and improves the quality of mother-infant relationship. This randomized controlled trial will investigate the effects of a SSC intervention on maternal postpartum depressive symptoms and additional outcomes in mothers and their full-term infants. Moreover, two potential underlying mechanisms for the relation between SSC and the maternal and infant outcomes will be examined, namely maternal oxytocin concentrations and infant intestinal microbiota. METHODS/
designDesign: A parallel-group randomized controlled trial.
participants116 mothers and their full-term infants.
interventionMothers in the SSC condition will be requested to provide daily at least one continuous hour of SSC to their infant. The intervention starts immediately after birth and lasts for 5 weeks. Mothers in the control condition will not be requested to provide SSC. Maternal and infant outcomes will be measured at 2 weeks, 5 weeks, 12 weeks and 1 year after birth. PRIMARY OUTCOME: maternal postpartum depressive symptoms. Secondary maternal outcomes: mental health (anxiety, stress, traumatic stress following child birth, sleep quality), physical health (physical recovery from the delivery, health, breastfeeding, physiological stress), mother-infant relationship (mother-infant bond, quality of maternal caregiving behavior). Secondary infant outcomes: behavior (fussing and crying, sleep quality), physical health (growth and health, physiological stress), general development (regulation capacities, social-emotional capacities, language, cognitive and motor capacities). Secondary underlying mechanisms: maternal oxytocin concentrations, infant intestinal microbiota. DISCUSSION: As a simple and cost-effective intervention, SSC may benefit both the mother and her full-term infant in the short-and long-term. Additionally, if SSC is shown to be effective in low-risk mother-infant dyads, then thought could be given to developing programs in high-risk samples and using SSC in a preventive manner.
trial registrationNTR5697 ; Registered on March 13, 2016.
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