Short duration of skin-to-skin contact: Effects on growth and breastfeeding

Journal of Paediatrics and Child Health

Volumn 43, Issue 12, 2007, Pages 831-836

  Boo, Nem Yun ^a,b   Jamli, Faizah Mohamed ^b  

^a INTERNATIONAL MEDICAL UNIVERSITY   (Malaysia)

^b UNIVERSITI KEBANGSAAN MALAYSIA MEDICAL CENTER   (Malaysia)

Author keywords

Head growth; Skin to skin contact; VLBW infant

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; ARTIFICIAL VENTILATION; BREAST FEEDING; BREAST MILK; CLINICAL TRIAL; CONFIDENCE INTERVAL; CONTROLLED CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; HEAD CIRCUMFERENCE; HUMAN; INFANT; INTERVENTION STUDY; KANGAROO CARE; LINEAR REGRESSION ANALYSIS; LOGISTIC REGRESSION ANALYSIS; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; NEWBORN INTENSIVE CARE; PREDICTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RANDOMIZATION; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL; STATISTICAL SIGNIFICANCE; VERY LOW BIRTH WEIGHT; WEIGHT GAIN;

BREAST FEEDING; FEMALE; GROWTH; HUMANS; INFANT, NEWBORN; INFANT, VERY LOW BIRTH WEIGHT; INTENSIVE CARE UNITS, NEONATAL; MALAYSIA; PARENT-CHILD RELATIONS; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; SKIN; TREATMENT OUTCOME; WEIGHT GAIN;

EID: 36348968823     PISSN: 10344810     EISSN: 14401754     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1440-1754.2007.01198.x     Document Type: Article

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