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Early father-infant skin-to-skin contact and its effect on the neurodevelopmental outcomes of moderately preterm infants in China: study protocol for a randomized controlled trial.
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- The posttraumatic growth of fathers of preterm infants: protocol for a qualitative study in China.Frontiers in psychiatry · 2024Article
- Kangaroo Mother Care for Low-Birth-Weight Babies in Low and Middle-Income Countries: A Narrative Review.Cureus · 2023Review
- Implementation experience of a 12-month intervention to introduce intermittent kangaroo mother care to eight Chinese neonatal intensive care units.World journal of pediatrics : WJP · 2022Article
- Effect evaluation of kangaroo mother care in Liping area, Guizhou province,China.BMC pediatrics · 2022Article
- A Narrative Review of Kangaroo Mother Care (KMC) and Its Effects on and Benefits for Low Birth Weight (LBW) Babies.Cureus · 2022Review
- Mapping the Field in Stress, Anxiety, and Postpartum Depression in Mothers of Preterm Infants in Neonatal Intensive Care.Children (Basel, Switzerland) · 2021Article
- The Effect of Home Visit Program Based on the Continued Kangaroo Mother Care on Maternal Resiliency and Development of Premature Infant: A Randomized Clinical Trial.International journal of community based nursing and midwifery · 2021Article
- Skin-to-Skin Care by Mother vs. Father for Preterm Neonatal Pain: A Randomized Control Trial (ENVIRON Trial).International journal of pediatrics · 2021Article
- Utilization pattern of kangaroo mother care after introduction in eight selected neonatal intensive care units in China.BMC pediatrics · 2020Article
- Comparing the effect of kangaroo mother care and field massage on serum bilirubin level of term neonates with hyperbilirubinemia under phototherapy in the neonatal ward.Caspian journal of internal medicine · 2020Article
- Association between sleep behavior and motor development in preterm infants.Jornal de pediatriaArticle
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Abstract
backgroundSkin-to-skin contact (SSC) is an evidence-based intervention that benefits low birth weight /preterm infants. However, China's health institutional policy inhibits parents from visiting their baby in the neonatal intensive care unit (NICU). In addition, the Chinese traditional postpartum behavioral practice of confining women to home raises barriers to mother-infant contact. Thus, to shorten the duration of parent-infant separation, father-infant SSC is considered a possible alternative. This study determines whether it is safe to perform father-infant SSC in the NICU and investigates how paternal SSC affects outcomes compared with traditional care (TC) for moderately preterm infants. METHODS/
designA randomized controlled trial will be used to investigate the effects of paternal-infant SSC in NICU wards in China. Preterm infants born at a gestational age in the range of 32 DISCUSSION: The effects of paternal-infant SSC on moderately preterm infants will be assessed. The data gathered in this study may have important implications for medical practice and policy in the NICU regarding the care methods of premature infants in China.
trial registrationChinese Clinical Trial Registry, ChiCTR-IOR-1701274 . Registered on 20 September 2017. Retrospectively registered.
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