Therapeutic Touch Modalities and Premature Neonate’s Health Outcome: A Literature Review

Chhugani, Manju

doi:10.4172/2167-0897.1000148

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“…The same study has been included in a literature review by Chhugani and Sarkar. [ 10 ] The Cochrane review has stated that there is evidence that different nonpharmacological interventions can be used with preterms, neonates, and older infants to significantly manage pain behaviors associated with acutely painful procedures. The most established evidence was for nonnutritive sucking, swaddling/facilitated tucking, and rocking/holding.…”

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Yakson touch as a part of early intervention in the Neonatal Intensive Care Unit: A systematic narrative review

Parashar

Samuel

Bansal

et al. 2016

Indian Journal of Critical Care Medicine

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Yakson is a Korean therapeutic touch given to neonates and infants by caressing their abdomen with one hand while the other hand is placed on the back of the neonate\infant either to relieve their pain or to calm them down. It was traditionally used by Koreans by caressing the aching body part of their children with a belief that it would relieve their pain. In spite of clinical evidence of its usefulness, there is limited literature available on Yakson touch. A systematic narrative review (SNR) was undertaken on studies that were carried out on the effectiveness of Yakson touch on infants and neonates. Only seven studies were detected from five major electronic databases, searched with the keywords: “Yakson,“ “Yakson touch,” and “Yakson in neonates”. One of the studies has been included in two Cochrane reviews by the same group of researchers published in 2011 and 2015, respectively, and also in a literature review. The evidence from these articles suggests that Yakson touch is able to increase the sleep scores of infants, affects their behavioral response, decreases the stress levels, increases maternal attachment, and has calming effects on them. However, the number of studies is limited, and thus the efficacy of this intervention has not been sufficiently established. Hence, there is a definite need for future studies to prove the efficacy of Yakson to include it in the early intervention programs. This SNR is aimed at compiling the studies which determined to prove the efficacy of the intervention of Yakson.

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Yakson touch as a part of early intervention in the Neonatal Intensive Care Unit: A systematic narrative review

Parashar

Samuel

Bansal

et al. 2016

Indian Journal of Critical Care Medicine

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“…The analysis revealed the homogeneity of both groups, so it can be assumed that infants' physiological and behavioral responses during blood collection were affected by facilitated tucking. Facilitated tucking is a type of therapeutical touch; touch is therapeutical modality which facilitates relaxation, promotes movement, enhances reflexes, and reduces anxiety and crying (Chhugani & Sarkar, 2014).…”

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Facilitated Tucking Effective to Pain Relief on the Preterm Infants in Perinatal Unit in Jakarta

Oktaviani

Rustina

Efendi

2018

Jurnal Keperawatan Indonesia

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The majority of preterm infants require a long period of hospitalization in intensive care units, which often necessitates those undergoing painful procedures, including blood collection. This study aims to identify the effectiveness of facilitated tucking on pain responses, including physiological parameters and the duration of crying during blood collection. The study design is quasi-experimental, employing a nonequivalent control group pretest-posttest approach. The study involves 40 infants, selected by the consecutive sampling technique and assigned into two groups: an intervention group (n= 20), which received facilitated tucking during blood collection, and a control group (n= 20), which did not receive facilitated tucking. The General Linear Model+post hoc, Mann-Whitney, and independent t-test were applied to analyze the data. The results suggest that there was a significant difference in the mean of the pulse, oxygen saturation, and duration of crying between the two groups during blood collection. The duration of crying in the intervention group was shorter than in the control group. Facilitated tucking was effective in relieving pain and the duration of crying during blood collection, and could be implemented as part of the developmental care process to promote pain management in infants.

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“…Alternatively, it could be explained in the frame of the Interactive Specialisation Theory (Johnson, ), considering that at such a young age there is not a strong specialization of the hands as the primary tactile area of the limb and that other areas of a neonate's body may be as sensitive or capable of habituating to tactile stimuli as the hand or the mouth. This is an important possibility, because we tend to consider the mouth and cheeks as primary tactile areas in newborns, and little thought has been given to other areas except in the infant massage literature (Chhugani & Sarkar, ; Harrison, ).…”

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The manual orienting response habituation to repeated tactile stimuli in preterm neonates: Discrimination of stimulus locations and interstimulus intervals

Dumont

Bulla

Bessot

et al. 2017

Developmental Psychobiology

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Preterm infants frequently develop atypical sensory profiles, the tactile modality being particularly affected. However, there is a lack of recent investigation of neonatal tactile perception in a passive context, especially in preterms who are particularly exposed to this tactile stimuli. Our aims were to provide evidence of orienting responses (behavioral modifications directing subject's attention towards stimuli) and habituation to passive tactile stimuli in preterm neonates, to explore their ability to perceive spatial and temporal aspects of the stimulus, and to evaluate the effect of clinical factors on these abilities. We included 61 preterm neonates, born between 32 and 34 weeks of gestational age. At 35 weeks of corrected gestational age, we measured orienting responses (forearm, hand, and fingers movements) during vibrotactile stimulation of their hand and forearm; during a habituation and dishabituation paradigm, the dishabituation being either a location change or a pause in the stimulation sequence. Preterm newborns displayed a manual orienting response to vibrotactile stimuli which significantly decreased when the stimulus was repeated, regardless of the stimulated location on the limb. Habituation was delayed in subjects born at a younger gestational age, smaller birth weight, and having experienced more painful care procedures. Preterm neonates perceived changes in stimulus location and interstimulus time interval. Our findings provide insights on several aspects of the perception of repeated tactile stimuli by preterm neonates, and the first evidence of the early development of temporal processing abilities in the tactile modality. Future work will investigate the links between this ability and neurodevelopmental disorders.

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Therapeutic Touch Modalities and Premature Neonate’s Health Outcome: A Literature Review

Cited by 10 publications

References 27 publications

Yakson touch as a part of early intervention in the Neonatal Intensive Care Unit: A systematic narrative review

Yakson touch as a part of early intervention in the Neonatal Intensive Care Unit: A systematic narrative review

Facilitated Tucking Effective to Pain Relief on the Preterm Infants in Perinatal Unit in Jakarta

The manual orienting response habituation to repeated tactile stimuli in preterm neonates: Discrimination of stimulus locations and interstimulus intervals

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