The purpose of this study is to compare the effects of mothers' skin-to-skin holding during feeding via a soother trainer with the effects of pacifier sucking on preterm infant biobehavioural responses during and immediately after a painful procedure Hypothesis: 1. When held by their mothers during blood collection, preterm infants will show less pain reaction than when sucking on a pacifier. 2. Following holding during the blood collection, mothers will find no differences in their infants' feeding ability.
Research Method: In a between subjects, randomized design, 20 stable preterm infants born between 30-35 weeks gestational age will be studied. Infants will be randomized to one of two interventions which will take place during blood collections that are required for clinical management. For the standard care condition, infants will remain in their isolettes and will be positioned in prone and given a pacifier to suck on throughout the blood collection. For the holding condition, infants will be held skin-to-skin by their mothers and given breast milk using a soother trainer during the blood collection.
Study Type
INTERVENTIONAL
Allocation
RANDOMIZED
Purpose
TREATMENT
Masking
NONE
Enrollment
15
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Children's and Women's Health Centre of British Columbia, Special Care Nursery
Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada
Videotaped and recorded at Baseline, Lance and Recovery:Neonatal Facial Coding System - total facial score; Heart Rate
Videotaped and Recorded at Baseline, Lance and Recovery:Hand Movements; Sleep/Wake States
Samples taken at baseline and recovery;Salivary Cortisol sample
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