An interventional study of Kangaroo Care in Immaturity, Oral Intolerance and Postnatal Adaptation, sponsored by Fatih University. Status unknown at 1 site in Turkey. Open to participants aged 32 Weeks to 35 Weeks. Per ClinicalTrials.gov, last updated 2014-09-09.
Sponsored by Fatih University · Not applicable, Interventional, and Basic science
Physiological processes leading to a preterm infant to be able to feed orally has not been fully understood. The investigators hypothesized that maturation of autonomic nervous system may play a major role in this process and kangaroo care may accelerate this maturation. The investigators will use heart rate variability to measure the maturation of autonomic nervous system.
Fatih University is the lead sponsor of 3 studies on the registry; none are open to participants now.
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While performing "Kangaroo care" the infant should be held skin-to-skin contact with her mother for 30-60 minutes. The baby, who is naked except for a diaper and a piece of cloth covering his or her back (either a receiving blanket or the parent's clothing), is placed in an upright position against a parent's bare chest. The values of heart rate variability will be measured during and also without Kangaroo Care in the same infants but different times.
Behavioral: Kangaroo Care
Kangaroo care is a technique practiced on newborn, usually preterm, infants wherein the infant is held, skin-to-skin, with an adult.
Also known as: Kangaroo Mother Care, Skin to skin contact
HRV-Sympathetic-Short Measurement-LF
By using Holter monitorization for 24 haur. LF (frequency domain, low frequency measurement): The low-frequency (LF) spectra represents predominantly sympathetic with some parasympathetic influence in the 0.04-to-0.15 Hz range.
Time frame: 5 Minutes
Time Domain Measurements of HRV
By using Holter monitorization for 24 haur, 5 different measurements get by 5 minutes heart rate analysis: SDNN, SDANN,SDNN index,Rmssd,pNN50 SDNN: ms, Standard deviation of all NN intervals. SDANN: ms Standard deviation of the averages of NN intervals in all 5 min segments of the entire recording. SDNN index: ms, mean of the standard deviations of all NN intervals for all 5 min segments of the entire recording RMSSD: ms, The square root of the mean of the sum of the squares of diVerences between adjacent NN intervals. pNN50: % NN50 count divided by the total number of all NN intervals
Time frame: 5 Minutes
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