Infant Feeding and Weight Trajectories in the Eat, Sleep, Console Trial: A Secondary Analysis of a Randomized Clinical Trial.

ABSTRACT:

Importance

Infants with neonatal opioid withdrawal syndrome (NOWS) cared for with the Eat, Sleep, Console (ESC) care approach receive less pharmacologic treatment and have shorter hospital stays compared to usual care with the Finnegan Neonatal Abstinence Scoring Tool, but the effects of these approaches on feeding and weight are unknown.

Objective

To evaluate feeding practices and weight trajectories in infants cared for with ESC vs usual care.

Design, setting, and participants

ESC-NOW is a cluster randomized trial of infants with NOWS born at 36 weeks' gestation or later at 26 US hospitals from September 2020 to March 2022. Each site transitioned from usual care to ESC (the study intervention) at a randomized time. Feeding was per site practice and not specified by

SUBMITTER: Merhar SL 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC11320328 | biostudies-literature | 2024 Oct

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature