ArticlePakistan journal of medical sciences2025
Effects of infant touch on growth-related indexes of preterm infants.
Article in Pakistan journal of medical sciences, 2025. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Not yet cited in PubMed.
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Objective: To investigate the effects of infant touch on the growth and development of preterm infants. Methodology: This was a retrospective study which included sixty-four preterm infants admitted to Maternity & Child Care Center of Qinhuangdao from June 2023 to May 2024 were recruited as study subjects and randomly assigned into the control group (n=32) and the observation group (n=32). The preterm infants in the control group received conventional monitoring measures, while those in the observation group received additional infant touch twice a day for 20 minutes each time for two months on top of the control group.. The physical development, and sleep quality indexes of preterm infants 60 days after birth were statistically compared. Results: At day 60 of life, the weight and height of the preterm infants in the observation group were markedly higher than those in the control group ( Conclusion: Infant touch boasts of promoting the growth and development of preterm infants in the early stages of life in multiple ways, such as promoting their weight and height growth, vision, language and emotion and enhancing their sleep quality.
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