NCT03911674

Effects of Oral Stimulation in Preterm Infants

Effects of Oral Stimulation on Feeding Performance, Length of Hospital Stay and Anthropometric Variables of Preterm Infants

• Status: Completed
• Phase: Phase 3
• Study type: Interventional
• Enrollment: 48 (actual)
• Sponsor: CEU San Pablo University · Academic / Other
• Sex: All
• Age: 7 Days
• Healthy volunteers: Not accepted

Summary

Preterm infants with gestational age inferior to 34 weeks were included in the study. A prospective experimental group received the oral stimulation protocol and the effects of the intervention were compared with a historical control group that did not receive any oral stimulation intervention. The study hypothesis is that oral stimulation in preterm infants has beneficial effects on the feeding performance, the length of hospitalization and anthropometric variables, including weight at discharge, height at discharge and head circumference at discharge.

Conditions

• Premature Infant
• Eating Disorder

Interventions

Type	Name	Description
OTHER	Oral manual stimulation of feeding in preterm infants	Manual stimulation of the cheeks (internal and external), lips, gums, tongue and palate by finger-strokin.

Timeline

• Start date: 2017-09-01
• Primary completion: 2018-04-01
• Completion: 2018-04-01
• First posted: 2019-04-11
• Last updated: 2019-04-11

Locations

1 site across 1 country: Spain