Effect of Kangaroo Baby Massage on Mother-infant Interaction at Home (KBM)
Premature, Low Birth Weight, Mother-Infant Interaction
About this trial
This is an interventional treatment trial for Premature focused on measuring Massage, Kangaroo mother care, low birth weight infant, premature infant, Mother- infant interaction, domiciliary, Nursing, home health nursing, telenursing
Eligibility Criteria
Inclusion Criteria
- Prematures and low birth weight infants in Kangaroo position with a chronological age less than 3 months
- The mothers take care the infant at home
- Baby with a weight equal to or greater than 1800 grams at the time of entry to the study.
- Baby whose birth was institutional or extra-institutional.
- Mothers with training in the Kangaroo Mother Program
- Children controlled in the Ambulatory Kangaroo Mother Program
Exclusion Criteria
- Children diagnosed with intraventricular hemorrhages grade III and IV or congenital malformations
- Children who have more than one ambulatory kangaroo control
- Children who have been at home for more than 3 days without starting the ambulatory kangaroo control
- Babies with infections and other pathologies that require hospitalization during the study
- Presence of infectious diseases and other pathologies in the mother that require hospitalization
- Mother confirmed with positive test for covid 19 at the moment of the randomization
- Mothers with cognitive problems or mental disorders.
Sites / Locations
- Programa canguro ambulatorio
Arms of the Study
Arm 1
Arm 2
Experimental
Active Comparator
Kangaroo baby Massage
Kangaroo position
The mother will apply the massage. The baby kangaroo will be exposed to the KBM for 10 minutes once a day during the time that the infant need to stay in kangaroo position at home. If the baby wakes up and wants to eat the KBM will be interrupted immediately and the baby will be fed, The temperature will be measured before and after the intervention. The massage will begin 60 minutes after the feed.
The infant must be in Kangaroo position with the mother semi sitting on bed with elevation of at least 30 degrees during 10 minutes every day until the infant doesn´t need to stay in kangaroo position at home.The temperature will be measured 60 minutes after the feed and 10 minutes after KP. If the baby wakes up and wants to eat the KP will be interrupted immediately and the baby will be fed, then the KP will be completed of time ( 10 minutes) to measure the temperature.