NCT06243861

Attachment Bonding and Neonatal Hospitalization: the Impact of Hospitalization in a Kangaroo Unit

• Status: Recruiting
• Phase: —
• Study type: Observational
• Enrollment: 96 (estimated)
• Sponsor: Centre Hospitalier Régional Metz-Thionville · Academic / Other
• Sex: Female
• Age: 18 Years
• Healthy volunteers: Not accepted

Summary

The Kangaroo Unit (UK) takes care of newborns requiring special care or monitoring for a pathology whose clinical situation is stable and whose prognosis is favorable. In order to avoid separating mother and child, these units were created with a care pathway somewhere between that requiring hospitalization in a neonatal unit and that of pathology-free newborns in post-natal care. Theoretically, the mother-child bond created in the UK is as good as that created in conventional post-natal care. However, studies show that there are limits to the quality of the bond in the UK. This study aims to assess whether the mother-child bond is degraded in the UK, in comparison with that of mothers in post-natal care.

Conditions

• Postnatal Care

Interventions

Type	Name	Description
BEHAVIORAL	Mother-child bond	assessing whether the mother-child bond is degraded in the UK, in comparison with that of mothers in post-natal care

Timeline

• Start date: 2024-04-10
• Primary completion: 2025-04-10
• Completion: 2025-04-10
• First posted: 2024-02-06
• Last updated: 2024-05-17

Locations

1 site across 1 country: France