Is Skin-to-Skin Care Helpful for Preterm Infants and Their Mothers After Birth?
Completed · Phase 1
Conditions studied: Moderate to Late Prematurity
In brief
To see if infant outcomes will improve when mothers are helped to hold their preterm infants skin-to-skin as soon as possible after birth and as often as possible and for as long as possible each time during the next five days.
Key facts
- Study ID
- NCT00917085
- Run by
- National Institute of Nursing Research (NINR)
- People needed
- 100
- Starts
- 1996-07-01
- Expected to finish
- 2001-12-01
- Last updated by the study team
- 2009-08-10
Who can join
Age: any. Sex: any. Healthy volunteers: not accepted.
You may qualify if…
- Mother and Infant Dyads
- Infants:
- singleton birth
- 32 to 36 completed weeks
- 5-minute Apgar score of 6 or more
- weighed 1300 to 3000 grams
- no birth defects that would interfere with feeding
- healthy enough to experience skin-to-skin contact with their mothers.
- Mothers:
- 18 or more years of age
- spoke English
- free of serious drug abuse
- well enough to experience skin-to-skin contact with their infants with assistance if needed.
You may not qualify if…
- Infants:
- too ill to be with their mothers
- who have a condition that interferes with feeding.
- Mothers:
- who are too ill to care for their infant
- are serious drug abusers.
Where it is running
- University Hospitals Case Medical Center — Cleveland, Ohio, United States
- Kadlec Medical Center — Richmond, Washington, United States
Full record on ClinicalTrials.gov
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