The Effect of Kangaroo Mother Care on Neonatal Outcomes in Iranian Hospitals: A Review

Abstract

Context: Kangaroo Mother Care (KMC) is a supportive technique that beings at the neonatal period and is one of the skin-to-skin contact methods of holding neonate by mother. This method has an important role in exclusive breastfeeding and thermal care of neonates. This study aimed to investigate the application of KMC and evaluate the effect of this technique in different neonatal outcomes, particularly in Iranian neonates. Moreover, this review can be a tool for formative evaluation for this newly introduced treatment intervention in Iran. Evidence Acquisition: This review was conducted in national and international databases concerning experience with KMC on term and preterm neonates admitted in Iranian hospitals from 2006 to 2014. The measured outcomes included physiologic, psychologic, and clinical effects of this practice on newborn infants. Results: In this study, 42 Persian and English language papers were reviewed and finally 26 articles were selected. Various effects of KMC on different factors such as analgesia; physiological effects, breastfeeding, icterus, length of hospitalization, infection, psychologic effects, and weight gain were found. Conclusions:The results showed that as a simple and suitable strategy for increasing the health status of the mothers and newborns, KMC had an important role in improvement of neonatal outcomes in neonatal wards of Iranian hospitals in recent ten years. Therefore, promoting this technique in all neonatal wards of the country can promote health status of this population.

The effect of kangaroo mother care on physiological parameters of premature infants in Hamadan City, Iran

“…In the United States, there are about 250,000 premature and low birth weight infants each year, accounting for 8.8% of births [ 4 ]. In Iran, 5000 neonates are born daily, about 12% of them are underweight [ 5 ]. Therefore, care for such infants is a burden on community health systems.…”

A construção da co-ocupação materna na Unidade de Terapia Intensiva Neonatal

“…However, the other aspects of co-occupation in this unit cannot be disregarded. In Kangaroo care, for example, there is the presence of shared emotionality, and among the many benefits of Kangaroo care, there are the strengthening of the mother-baby bond, the reduction of the psychological and physical stress of the baby and greater incentive and maintenance of breastfeeding (SARPARAST et al, 2015).…”

“…Maternal demands and responsibilities in the care of their children with disabilities challenge the constant presence of mothers as well as their efforts to meet the medical, educational and recreational needs of their children, and it is necessary to give up the professional career plan to become a mother full-time (SMITH, 2004). When intervening with this group, occupational therapists offer opportunity for maternal engagement in co-occupations as one of the purposes to be achieved, even if the child has serious impairments (PRICE; MINER, 2009).…”

Persepsi Ibu Terhadap Berbagai Model Gendongan Perawatan Metode Kanguru (Pmk): Pilot Study

“…Populasi terjangkau pada penelitian ini yaitu ibu dan bayi berat lahir rendah yang dirawat di rumah sakit di Jakarta, sedangkan sampel pada penelitian ibu dan bayi berat lahir rendah Manfaat PMK alam memfasilitasi bayi untuk menyusu pada ibu dapat meningkatkan angka menyusui (Sarparast & Farhadi, 2015). Selain itu fungsi gendongan PMK untuk mempertahankan bayi di dada ibu dan memastikan kulit bayi menempel pada kulit ibu sangat penting karena hal ini dapat menimbulkan terjadinya maternal neonatal thermal synchrony yaitu perubahan suhu pada payudara ibu untuk mempertahankan suhu tubuh bayi normal (Jain & Sarkar, 2000).…”