NCT06777524

Skin-to-skin Contact in Healthy Term Infants

Short-term and Long-term Effects of Skin-to-skin Contact in Healthy Term Infants

• Status: Recruiting
• Phase: N/A
• Study type: Interventional
• Enrollment: 130 (estimated)
• Sponsor: Korea University Anam Hospital · Academic / Other
• Sex: All
• Age: 1 Hour – 72 Hours
• Healthy volunteers: Accepted

Summary

This is a prospective, double-blind, randomized controlled clinical trial study to investigate short- and long-term effects of mother-infant skin-to-skin contact in healthy term infants, in order to provide supporting data for emphasizing mother-infant skin contact and family-centered care in South Korea.

Conditions

• Skin-to-skin Contact

Interventions

Type	Name	Description
BEHAVIORAL	skin-to-skin contact education	For the intervention group, additional education on the importance and clinical benefits of mother-infant skin-to-skin contact will be provided (including an educational video). They will be instructed to engage in a minimum of 6 hours of skin-to-skin contact per day with the infant's and mother's chests exposed for at least 15 minutes per session, and to keep a record of the contact time, as well as the time spent holding the clothed infant and a daily feeding diary.

Timeline

• Start date: 2025-02-10
• Primary completion: 2027-01-31
• Completion: 2030-01-31
• First posted: 2025-01-16
• Last updated: 2025-09-23

Locations

2 sites across 1 country: South Korea