Comparing effect of neonate's massage, kangaroo mother care and routine cares on neonates' physiological symptoms of pain due to invasive procedures in neonates

This study aim to compare effect of neonate's massage, kangaroo mother care (KMC) and routine cares on hospitalized neonates' physiological symptoms of pain due to invasive procedures. This clinical trial study will conduct on 126 hospitalized term neonates in pediatric ward and NICU of Besat Hospital, Hamadan, Iran, during 2015. Inclusion criteria include lack of symptoms of severe disease or congenital abnormality that prevents neonate to exit from incubator; neonates who will born 32-37 weeks of age based on the age is recorded in the medical record and lack of intubation or connecting to ventilator in neonate. Exclusion criteria include existence or occurrence of any kind of medical or obstetric problems for the mother; neonate die during the study and any situation which do not allow to exit neonate from incubator. Subjects will divide to two intervention groups and one control group according to table of random numbers. In the first intervention group, KMC will perform for 30 minutes and in the second intervention group leg massage will do by mother for 15 minutes. In control group, while neonate is connecting to pulse oximetry in supine position will put in incubator without any touch and change in position. In both intervention groups, the physiological signs of pain in 15 minutes before invasive painful procedures (as minutes zero), during the invasive painful procedures (as minutes 15) and 15 minutes after the invasive painful procedures (as minutes 30) and in control group, in three same time as zero (15 minutes after supine position of neonate in the incubator), 15 (during a painful procedure) and 30 (15 minutes after painful procedures) will observe and record by physiological sign scale.

Vic-Chancellor of Research and Technology of Hamadan University of Medical Sciences