Skin-to-skin contact in a reference center for the kangaroo method: descriptive study
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https://doi.org/10.12957/reuerj.2023.74244Keywords:
Intensive Care Units, Neonatal, Neonatal Nursing, Infant, Premature, Kangaroo-Mother Care MethodAbstract
Objective: to describe how skin-to-skin contact is practiced in a neonatal unit that is a reference for the Kangaroo Mother Care. Method: descriptive, cross-sectional study, carried out in a neonatal intensive unit in southern Brazil. Data analyzed using simple descriptive statistics. Protocol approved by the Research Ethics Committee. Results: data from 29 preterm newborns weighing less than 1,800 grams were analyzed. The first skin-to-skin contact took place, on average, after 6.38 days. The frequency of skin-to-skin contact was 1.6 times a day, with a minimum time of 56 minutes and an average weight gain of 26.98g per day. Conclusion: skin-to-skin contact occurs, for the most part, after the fifth day of life, in the first stage of the Method. The frequency of this contact was once a day, and the average duration was 120 minutes. In the second stage of the Method, the data varied little.
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