Skin-to-skin Contact in Healthy Term Infants
ConditionSkin-to-skin Contact
Trial statusRecruiting
Trial phaseNot applicable
Trial typeInterventional
Biological sexAll
Age1-72
SponsorKorea University Anam Hospital
About this trial
This is a prospective, double-blind, randomized controlled clinical trial study to investigate short- and long-term effects of mother-infant skin-to-skin contact in healthy term infants, in order to provide supporting data for emphasizing mother-infant skin contact and family-centered care in South Korea.
Eligibility criteria
Qualifiers
Babies born at Korea University Anam Hospital
Term infants (37 weeks or more)
Infants with a birth weight of 2,500g or more
Healthy infants with an Apgar score of 7 or higher at 5 minutes
Disqualifiers
Preterm infants born at 37 weeks of less gestation
Low birth weight infants weighing less than 2500g at birth
Mothers under the age of 20
Unmarried mothers
Trial design
Treatments tested in this trial
- skin-to-skin contact education
Treatment groups
130 Participants
are divided into 2 treatment groupsLocations
2Korea University Anam Hospital NICU02841, SeoulSeoul, South Korea
Korea University Anam Hospital NICU02841, SeoulSeoul, South Korea
Sponsors and collaborators
Korea University Anam Hospital
Lead sponsor
Source ClinicalTrials.gov