Physiological Parameters and Crying Time in the Newborn Bath

The Effect of Palmar Grasp Reflex Stimulation on Physiological Parameters and Crying Time in the Newborn Bath

Bathing is essential for maintaining and improving the health of the newborn. It has numerous beneficial effects, such as cleaning and protecting the skin, preventing infections, cleaning unwanted substances, regulating blood circulation and the respiratory system, regulating body temperature, relieving pain, providing comfort, and supporting the parent-infant bond. Although bathing has many benefits, it is a stressful experience for newborn babies. Research on the effects of bathing on babies has shown that babies experience behavioral difficulties during bathing, such as crying, restlessness, hiccups, yawning, tremors, body looseness, looseness of the extremities, facial looseness, opening of fingers, and grimacing. Bathing may also lead to some physiological responses, such as hypothermia, hypoxia, dyspnea, cyanosis, desaturation, and tachycardia.Therefore, this study aimed to determine the effect of palmar grasp reflex stimulation during neonatal bath on the physiological parameters and crying time of the newborn.

Study Overview

• Status: Completed
• Conditions: Infant, Newborn
• Intervention / Treatment: Other: Palmar Grasp Reflex Stimulation

• Study Type: Interventional
• Enrollment (Actual): 82
• Phase: Not Applicable

Contacts and Locations

Study Locations

• Turkey
  • Erzurum
    • Yakuti̇ye, Erzurum, Turkey, 25000
      • AtaturkU

Participation Criteria

Eligibility Criteria

• Ages Eligible for Study: 2 days to 4 weeks (Child)
• Accepts Healthy Volunteers: Yes
• Genders Eligible for Study: All

Description

Inclusion Criteria:

• At least 24 hours after birth
• have a gestational age over 36
• not be asphyxiated
• Feeding at least 1-3 hours before bathing
• Not receiving analgesic sedation before bathing
• Stable vital signs

Exclusion Criteria:

• Ineligible for immersion tub bathing

Study Plan

How is the study designed?

Design Details

• Primary Purpose: Supportive Care
• Allocation: Randomized
• Interventional Model: Parallel Assignment
• Masking: Triple

Number of Arms

2

Arms and Interventions

Participant Group / Arm	Intervention / Treatment
No Intervention: Control Group
Experimental: Palmar Grasp Reflex Stimulation	Other: Palmar Grasp Reflex Stimulation; The palmar grasp reflex is an involuntary flexion-adduction movement involving the hands and fingers.

What is the study measuring?

Primary Outcome Measures

Outcome Measure	Time Frame
Body temperature in Celsius	12 week
Respiratory rate per minute	12 week
Pulse per minute	12 week
Oxygen saturation levels in %	12 week
Crying time in seconds	12 week

Collaborators and Investigators

• Sponsor: Ataturk University
• Collaborators: MSc Elif Simay KOÇ

Study record dates

Study Major Dates

• Study Start (Actual): December 1, 2021
• Primary Completion (Actual): March 1, 2022
• Study Completion (Actual): March 15, 2022

Study Registration Dates

• First Submitted: March 7, 2022
• First Submitted That Met QC Criteria: March 15, 2022
• First Posted (Actual): March 24, 2022

Study Record Updates

• Last Update Posted (Actual): April 22, 2022
• Last Update Submitted That Met QC Criteria: April 21, 2022
• Last Verified: April 1, 2022

More Information

Terms related to this study

• Other Study ID Numbers: B.30.2.ATA.0.01.00/51

Plan for Individual participant data (IPD)

• Plan to Share Individual Participant Data (IPD)?: NO

Drug and device information, study documents

• Studies a U.S. FDA-regulated drug product: No
• Studies a U.S. FDA-regulated device product: No