Gentle Human Touch and Yakson: The Effect on Preterm's Behavioral Reactions

Bijari, Bahare Bahman; Iranmanesh, Sedigheh; Eshghi, Fateme; Baneshi, Mohammad Reza

doi:10.5402/2012/750363

Cited by 34 publications

(26 citation statements)

References 9 publications

Supporting

Mentioning

Contrasting

Unclassified

Order By: Relevance

“…34–64 Three studies were on gentle human touch, 34–37 two on massage 38–40 and 21 on kangaroo care. 41–64 Gentle human touch treatment length and duration ranged from 10 to 15 min over a course of 5 to 15 days.…”

Section: Resultsmentioning

confidence: 99%

Enhancing sensory experiences for very preterm infants in the NICU: an integrative review

et al. 2016

View full text Add to dashboard Cite

OBJECTIVE Very preterm infants hospitalized in the neonatal intensive care unit (NICU) experience alterations in sensory experiences. Defining types, timing and frequency of sensory-based interventions that optimize outcomes can inform environmental modifications. The objective of this study was to conduct an integrative review on sensory-based interventions used with very preterm infants in the NICU to improve infant and parent outcomes. STUDY DESIGN The data sources include MEDLINE, CINAHL, Cochrane Library and Google Scholar. Studies were identified that used sensory-based interventions in the NICU with preterm infants born ≤32 weeks gestation, were published in a peer-reviewed journal between 1995 and 2015, and measured outcomes related to infant and parent outcomes. Studies were extracted from electronic databases and hand-searched from identified reference lists. RESULTS Eighty-eight articles were identified (31 tactile, 12 auditory, 3 visual, 2 kinesthetic, 2 gustatory/olfactory and 37 multimodal). There was evidence to support the use of kangaroo care, music and language exposure, and multimodal interventions starting at 25 to 28 weeks postmenstrual age. These interventions were related to better infant development and lower maternal stress, but not all findings were consistent. Limitations included lack of consistent outcome measures, study quality and gaps in the literature. CONCLUSIONS Most research identified interventions that were done for short periods of time. It is unclear what the potential is for improving outcomes if positive sensory exposures occur consistently throughout NICU hospitalization. Until more research defines appropriate sensory-based interventions to use with infants born very preterm in the NICU, information from this review can be combined with expert opinion and parent/family values to determine best practice.

show abstract

Section: Resultsmentioning

confidence: 99%

Enhancing sensory experiences for very preterm infants in the NICU: an integrative review

et al. 2016

View full text Add to dashboard Cite

show abstract

“…Sleep integrity can be preserved by modifying the NICU environment to reduce noise and light levels (Varvara, Effrossine, Despoina, Konstantinos, & Matziou, ) and adjusting caregiving activities (Levy et al, ). Increased sleep time for infants can be immediately achieved with gentle touch (Bahman Bijari, Iranmanesh, Eshghi, & Baneshi, ), a prone position (Modesto et al, ), holding an infant in a flexed position, known as facilitated tucking (Valizadeh, Ghahremani, Gharehbaghi, & Jafarabadi, ), non‐nutritive sucking on a pacifier (sucking; Liaw et al, ), nesting, and swaddling (Abdeyazdan, Mohammadian‐Ghahfarokhi, Ghazavi, & Mohammadizadeh, ). Preterm infants receiving this developmental care show increases in the amount of quiet sleep (Bertelle, Mabin, Adrien, & Sizun, ); sucking, oral sucrose feeding, and facilitated tucking showed greater occurrences of quiet sleep and fewer occurrences of fussing and crying during heel‐stick procedures than those receiving routine care (Liaw et al, ).…”

Section: Supportive Care and Infant Sleepmentioning

confidence: 99%

Effects of a supportive care bundle on sleep variables of preterm infants during hospitalization

Lan

Yang

Hsieh

et al. 2018

Research in Nursing & Health

View full text Add to dashboard Cite

Sleep is important for preterm infants' brain development, but they are frequently exposed to painful procedures in the neonatal intensive care unit (NICU) that disturb their sleep cycle and affect their growth. The purpose of this study was to examine the prolonged effects of a supportive care bundle (modulation of the infants' states, non-nutritive sucking, facilitated tucking, and oral sucrose feeding) on preterm infants' sleep variables (sleep efficiency, total sleep time, sleep latency, and frequency of wake bouts) during hospitalization. The team recruited 65 preterm infants (gestational age at birth 28-36 weeks, average birth weight 1,652 g) from a Level III NICU at a medical center in Taiwan. Infants were randomly assigned to one of two treatment conditions to be administered while receiving intrusive procedures: (1) control condition (usual care, including routine procedures, positioning, and gentle touch); or (2) intervention condition in which the supportive care bundle was added to usual care. Sleep variables were measured using actigraphy for a baseline of three continuous days on the 6th to 8th days after birth and again for 3 continuous days when infants weighed ≧1,950 g. Two forms of generalized estimating equation analyses with control of significant covariates were used for data analysis. The supportive care bundle not only significantly increased sleep efficiency and total sleep time but also significantly decreased duration of sleep latency and frequency of wake bouts. These results provide evidence to support the incorporation of the supportive care bundle into NICU clinical practice during intrusive procedures.

show abstract

“…The clear challenge in aquatic bodywork field especially in innovative watsu® therapy and its ramifications is the absence of studies with standardized protocols. Positive effects of manipulation and trigger points therapies on muscle relaxation and psychological state were observed (Zimmerman 2015, Bijari et al 2012, Sherman et al 2011, Björnsdotter et al 2010, Ditzen et al 2007, Moyer et al 2004. In the preliminary studies, the positive effect of watsu® therapy on flexibility, relaxation and ANS activity was observed (Tufekcioglu and Hassanain 2016, Barbosa et al 2014, Tufekcioglu et al 2010.…”

Section: Introductionmentioning

confidence: 99%

The Effect of 12-Week Passive Aquatic Bodywork on Sympathovagal Balance of Obese Youth

Tufekcioglu¹,

Erzeybek²,

Kaya³

et al. 2018

JETS

View full text Add to dashboard Cite

Background: Obesity has been identified as a global epidemic that is associated with numerous comorbidities such as type 2 diabetes, hypertension, cancer, cardiovascular disease. We have investigated the effects of Watsu® therapy and Immersion on HRV parameters of obese male subjects. Methods and Results:Volunteer 34 obese subjects with BMI above 30 without any other chronic health issues were included (age, 18.30±.31, height, 166.02±29.60, BMI, 36.54±5.96). Randomized controlled trial was conducted with Watsu and Immersion protocols whereas control group received no therapy in water or on land for 12 weeks. A baseline HRV was recorded 5 minutes in four different circumstances. Polar H7 heart rate sensor and digital standardized HRV signal processing software were used to record the R-R intervals in millisecond. The repeated measures were used to compare the conditions between the therapies. The HRV analyses were performed using three-way Mixed ANOVA. Multiple comparisons were done with a Bonferroni adjustment of the alpha level (0.05). The collective results of HF showed significant negative effect (13.01±1.36, 9.99±1.11) and HF laying supine value (20.62±2.22) was the highest (p<0.05).Conclusion: A significant inverse correlation was found between HRV values and both therapeutic interventions. Counterintuitively, 12-week of watsu and immersion therapies decreased LF and HF.

show abstract

Gentle Human Touch and Yakson: The Effect on Preterm's Behavioral Reactions

Cited by 34 publications

References 9 publications

Enhancing sensory experiences for very preterm infants in the NICU: an integrative review

Enhancing sensory experiences for very preterm infants in the NICU: an integrative review

Effects of a supportive care bundle on sleep variables of preterm infants during hospitalization

The Effect of 12-Week Passive Aquatic Bodywork on Sympathovagal Balance of Obese Youth

Contact Info

Product

Resources

About