NCT02780544

Infant-parent Skin-to-skin Contact During Screening for Retinopathy

Is There a Difference in Pain Score, Stress Response and Motor Repertoire in Infants Given Skin-to-skin Contact With the Mother/Father or Standard Care During Screening for Retinopathy?

• Status: Completed
• Phase: N/A
• Study type: Interventional
• Enrollment: 34 (actual)
• Sponsor: St. Olavs Hospital · Academic / Other
• Sex: All
• Age: 31 Weeks – 37 Weeks
• Healthy volunteers: Not accepted

Summary

Retinopathy of prematurity (ROP) is a feared complication of premature birth. If discovered in time, the disease can be treated, and impaired vision or blindness can be reduced. Premature infants are therefore examined regularly after birth. However, the examination is painful and stressful for the infant. Painful experiences might lead to a pathological stress response later in life and should therefore be prevented. In this study skin-to-skin contact with a parent is tested for relief of pain and stress in preterm infants being examined for retinopathy of prematurity.

Conditions

• Retinopathy of Prematurity

Interventions

Type	Name	Description
BEHAVIORAL	skin-to-skin contact	skin-to-skin contact with parent during eye examination.
DEVICE	incubator	staying in incubator during eye examination.
DRUG	Sucrose	oral sucrose before eye examination

Timeline

• Start date: 2014-01-01
• Primary completion: 2016-06-01
• Completion: 2016-06-01
• First posted: 2016-05-23
• Last updated: 2019-01-04

Locations

1 site across 1 country: Norway