NCT06286813

The Effect of Almond and Extra Virgin Olive Oils on Maintaining Skin Integrity in Neonates

The Effect of Almond and Extra Virgin Olive Oils on Maintaining Skin Integrity in Neonates Admitted to the Neonatal Intensive Care Unit

• Status: Unknown
• Phase: N/A
• Study type: Interventional
• Enrollment: 120 (estimated)
• Sponsor: Marmara University · Academic / Other
• Sex: All
• Age: 1 Hour – 72 Hours
• Healthy volunteers: Accepted

Summary

This study aimed to evaluate the effects of extra virgin olive and almond oils on maintaining skin integrity in neonates admitted to the neonatal intensive care unit. Interventional research with two parallel groups and no control group

Detailed description

The study was conducted in the Neonatal intensive care unit (NICU) of a training and research hospital.The total number of infants admitted to the NICU was 28. Each nurse is responsible for the care of 3 or 4 newborn babies. Skin are routines in the NICU: A skin condition assessment score is routinely performed every day (09.00 am) in all infants and moisturizing products are used for their skin care. Therefore, there was no control group in the study. Extra virgin olive oil and almond oil are among the skin care products used in the clinic routines. Therefore, the effects of the currently used oils were compared in the study

Conditions

• Skin Care

Interventions

Type	Name	Description
OTHER	Plant (natural) oils	Using 10 ml of plant(natural) oil once a day for daily skin care of newborns

Timeline

• Start date: 2024-03-02
• Primary completion: 2024-05-03
• Completion: 2024-05-30
• First posted: 2024-02-29
• Last updated: 2024-02-29

Locations

1 site across 1 country: Turkey (Türkiye)