Tactile/kinesthetic Stimulus Program
Trial statusRecruiting
Trial phaseNot applicable
Trial typeInterventional
Biological sexAll
Age28-32
SponsorGonca Karatas Baran
About this trial
The study will be carried out as a prospective randomized controlled clinical study to determine the effect of tactile/kinesthetic stimulus program on preterm infants on transition time to full sucking, sucking success and hospital stay.
Eligibility criteria
This trial accepts healthy volunteersQualifiers
Born between 28-32 weeks of gestation,
Stable vital signs,
1st and 5th minute APGAR score between 6-10,
Babies who have received mechanical ventilator or continuous positive air pressure (CPAP) or both support after 48 hours have passed after stabilization,
Disqualifiers
IUGG,
Infants with severe asphyxia,
Babies born with low birth weight according to their gestational week,
Having an anomaly that will prevent her from feeding,
Trial design
Design model
Parallel
Treatments tested in this trial
Tactile/kinesthetic Group
Other interventionTactile/kinesthetic stimulation is performed in three stages. In the first stage; for tactile stimulation; The baby is placed in the prone (prone) position in the incubator. Light massage was applied in the head, shoulder, back, legs and arms of the infants. Each massage is applied 12 times for 1 minute. Massage was performed for 5 seconds. In the second stage Kinesthetic stimulation, including elbow flexion-extension movement, palm massages, flexion-extension of the knees and legs and plantar massages, was applied while the neonate was in supine position. Each kinesthetic stimulation was performed for 5 seconds. Each movement was repeated six times, with a total duration of 5 minutes. Tactile stimulation was repeated once after kinesthetic stimulation. The total duration of TKS was 15 minutes which was performed three times daily preferably between breastfeeding or bottle feeding for 14 consecutive days.
Treatment groups
80 Participants
are divided into 2 treatment groupsGroup A: Tactile/kinesthetic GroupExperimental treatment 1 intervention
Group B: Control GroupNo intervention 0 interventions
Trial outcomes
Primary outcomes
1
transition time (day) to full oral feeding
This is the data on which day full oral feeding is started after admission to the neonatal intensive care unit.
Time frame
within the first 30 days of birth2
transition time(day) to oral feeding trials
This is the data on which day oral feeding trials were performed after admission to the neonatal intensive care unit. intensive care unit.
Time frame
within the first 30 days of birth3
transition time (day) to full enteral feeding
This is the data on which day full enteral feeding is started after admission to the neonatal intensive care unit.
Time frame
within the first 30 days of birth4
transition time (day) to enteral feeding trials
This is the data on which day full enteral feeding is started after admission to the neonatal intensive care unit.
Time frame
within the first 30 days of birthSponsors and contacts
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Gonca Karatas Baran
Lead sponsor
Etlik Zubeyde Hanım Women's Health Care, Training and Research Hospital
Sponsor institution
Source ClinicalTrials.gov