Effect of Tactile Experience During Preterm Infant Feeding on Clinical Outcomes.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Although the survival rate of very preterm infants has improved, rates of subsequent neurobehavioral disabilities remain high. One factor implicated in poor neurobehavioral and developmental outcomes is hospitalization and inconsistent caregiving patterns in the neonatal intensive care unit. Although much underlying brain damage occurs in utero or shortly after birth, neuroprotective strategies may stop progression of damage, particularly when these strategies are used during the most sensitive periods of neural plasticity 2-3 months before term age.

Objective

The purpose of this analysis was to test the effect of a patterned feeding experience involving a tactile component (touch and/or holding) provided during feedings on preterm infants' clinical outcomes, meas

SUBMITTER: Pickler RH 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC7483367 | biostudies-literature | 2020 Sep/Oct

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature