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Skin-to-skin Contact in Healthy Term Infants

South Korea130 participantsStarted 2025-02-10

Plain-language summary

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.

Who can participate

Age range1 Hour – 72 Hours

SexALL

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Inclusion Criteria: * 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 * Mothers and infants without severe acute complications, such as requiring intensive care treatment immediately after delivery Exclusion Criteria: * 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 * Multiple pregnancies (twins or triplets) * Parents do not consent to participation in the study

What they're measuring

Percentage of any breast feeding (combined with formula and/or solid or not)

Timeframe: at 4 months of age

Trial details

NCT IDNCT06777524

SponsorKorea University Anam Hospital

Sponsor typeOTHER

Study typeINTERVENTIONAL

Primary completion2027-01-31

Contact for this trial

Juyoung Lee, Professor

+82-2-920-5647 juyounglee@korea.ac.kr

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