Conclusion : Positive clinical ly meaningful effects ( > 5 points ) are seen to an age of 36 months , but are no longer present at 5 years
Objective : To determine in a systematic review , whether interventions for infant development that involve parents , improve neurodevelopment at 12 months corrected age or older .
Kangaroo Care Compared to Incubators in Maintaining Body Warmth in Preterm Infants
Many preterm infants cared for in incubators do not experience Kangaroo Care ( KC ) , skin-to-skin contact with their mothers , due to fear of body heat loss when being held outside the incubator . A r and omized clinical trial of 16 KC and 13 control infants using a pretest-test-posttest design of three consecutive interfeeding intervals of 2.5 to 3.0 h duration each was conducted over 1 day . Infant abdominal and toe temperatures were measured in and out of the incubator ; maternal breast temperature was measured during KC . Repeated measures ANOVA showed no change in abdominal temperature across all periods and between groups . Toe temperatures were significantly higher during KC than incubator periods , and maternal breast temperature met each infant ’s neutral thermal zone requirements within 5 min of onset of KC .  Preterm infants similar to those studied here will maintain body warmth with up to 3 h of KC
Conclusion : Positive clinical ly meaningful effects ( > 5 points ) are seen to an age of 36 months , but are no longer present at 5 years
Objective : To determine in a systematic review , whether interventions for infant development that involve parents , improve neurodevelopment at 12 months corrected age or older .