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Effects of Skin-to-Skin Holding on General Movements of Preterm Infants

Janet C. Constantinou, MA

Division of Neonatal and Developmental Medicine, Stanford University School of Medicine, Stanford, CA; Intermediate Nursery, Lucile Salter Packard Children's Hospital, 725 Welch Road, Palo Alto, CA 94304

Elvidina N. Adamson-Macedo, PhD

School of Health Sciences, University of Wolverhampton, Wolverhampton, UK

David K. Stevenson, MD

Division of Neonatal and Developmental Medicine, Stanford University School of Medicine, Stanford, CA

Majid Mirmiran, MD, PhD

Netherlands Institute for Brain Research, Amsterdam, The Netherlands

Barry E. Fleisher, MD

Division of Neonatal and Developmental Medicine, Stanford University School of Medicine, Stanford, CA

The study objective was to test the hypothesis that the effect of skin-to-skin (STS) holding increases the ratio of rest to activity in low birth weight preterm infants. Ten infants with birthweight <2,000 grams were videotaped before and after STS holding. Video recordings were analyzed to determine the number of general movements. We found no statistically significant difference between the percentage of general movements over the two periods. We conclude that the ratio of rest-activity before and after STS holding does not change as measured by occurrence of general movements.

Clinical Pediatrics, Vol. 38, No. 8, 467-471 (1999)
DOI: 10.1177/000992289903800805
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