NCT05812222

The Effect of Early Skin-to-Skin Contact in Normal Births on Suction Sufficiency, Stress and Bilirubin Levels of Newborns

Completed NA Last updated 20 July 2023

What this trial tests

NA trial testing Skin-to-Skin contact. in Nurse's Role in 60 participants. Completed in 31 March 2021.

Timeline

15 June 2020

Primary endpoint
15 September 2020

31 March 2021

Quick facts

Lead sponsor	Kutahya Health Sciences University
Phase	NA
Status	Completed
Study type	INTERVENTIONAL
Allocation	randomized
Design	parallel
Masking	none
Primary purpose	health services research
Enrollment	60
Start date	15 June 2020
Primary completion	15 September 2020
Estimated completion	31 March 2021
Sites	1 location across Turkey (Türkiye)

Drugs / interventions tested

• Skin-to-Skin contact.

Conditions studied

• Nurse's Role — all drugs for Nurse's Role →
• Breastfeeding — all drugs for Breastfeeding →

Sponsor

Kutahya Health Sciences University

Who can join

Adults 2 Minutes to 5 Days, any sex, with Nurse's Role or Breastfeeding. Patients with the condition only — healthy volunteers not accepted.

Sponsor's own description

Breastfeeding is one of the most effective ways to ensure a baby's health and survival, and breast milk is the ideal food for babies. It is recommended to start breastfeeding within the first hour of life, following skin-to-skin contact between the mother and the newborn immediately after birth.

Newborns transition from the dark, narrow and fluid-filled intrauterine environment to the wide, bright, cold and dry extrauterine life during the birth process. Thus, in addition to invasive procedures such as heel lance, vascular access, etc., including the birth process, simple and routine procedures such as separation from its mother in a short time to measure body weight cause stress for the newborn. For this reason, it is recommended that newborns should not be separated from their mothers except for important medical reasons, and that skin-to-skin contact should be initiated as soon as possible after birth so that the newborn can cope with the "birth stress".

Hyperbilirubinemia, as physiological jaundice, usually begins in the first 24-72 hours of life in term newborns. It peaks in the following days and starts to decrease in the following days. Colostrum, which is a natural laxative found in breast milk, facilitates the removal of meconium in the newborn and provides bilirubin excretion with stool. With early skin-to-skin contact between mother and newborn in the first minutes of life after birth; Nurses have a key role in reducing the level of "birth stress" experienced by the newborn and in reducing the severity of hyperbilirubinemia by starting breastfeeding early.

Publications & conference data

No peer-reviewed publications indexed yet for this trial. Completed trials usually publish results within 12-18 months.