ArticleFrontiers in pediatrics2026
Effects of non-nutritive sucking combined with kangaroo care during blood sampling from the heel of newborns.
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Background: The quality of heel blood sampling is critical to the accuracy of neonatal disease screening. However, neonates inevitably experience pain during heel-lance procedures, and repeated painful stimuli may adversely affect neural development. This study aimed to evaluate the effectiveness of non-nutritive sucking combined with kangaroo care in improving procedural outcomes during heel blood sampling in newborns. Methods: This was a single-centre, non-randomised, quasi-experimental historical-control study. A total of 186 full-term newborns delivered vaginally and undergoing heel blood sampling for neonatal disease screening in the Department of Obstetrics at Huzhou Maternal and Child Health Hospital between July 2024 and June 2025 were included. According to the calendar period, newborns were included in a historical control group receiving routine care from July to December 2024 ( Results: The intervention group demonstrated a significantly higher first-attempt success rate (97.62%) compared with the control group (83.33%; Conclusion: The combination of non-nutritive sucking and kangaroo care was associated with favourable outcomes in neonatal heel-prick blood sampling, including higher first-attempt success, larger blood-drop diameter, shorter bleeding duration, lower procedural pain, and fewer puncture-related adverse events. These findings suggest that the combined intervention may be a feasible non-pharmacological approach for neonatal procedural pain management.
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