Effectiveness of Oral Stimulation on Feeding Performance among Preterm Babies Admitted in Neonatal Intensive Care Unit
Introduction: Preterm babies, or those born before 37 weeks of pregnancy, often face challenges adapting to life outside the womb. Many are unable to breastfeed due to difficulties coordinating their breathing, sucking, and swallowing. This feeding issue arises from an underdeveloped central nervous...
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| Format: | Article |
| Language: | English |
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Wolters Kluwer Medknow Publications
2025-01-01
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| Series: | Journal of the Scientific Society |
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| Online Access: | https://journals.lww.com/10.4103/jss.jss_255_24 |
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| Summary: | Introduction:
Preterm babies, or those born before 37 weeks of pregnancy, often face challenges adapting to life outside the womb. Many are unable to breastfeed due to difficulties coordinating their breathing, sucking, and swallowing. This feeding issue arises from an underdeveloped central nervous system and weak oral muscle coordination for the suck-swallow-breath process. As a result, parents frequently need to rely on artificial feeding and parental nutrition to ensure their babies receive adequate nourishment.
Objective:
To evaluate the effectiveness of oral stimulation on the level of feeding performance among preterm babies. To associate the posttest level of feeding performance of preterm babies with selected mother- and child-related variables.
Materials and Methods:
Quantitative research approach with one group pre-test and post-test design was used with a sample size of 60 using nonprobability sampling technique at a tertiary care hospital of Belagavi.
Results:
The result shows that the mean pretest score is 12.3 and the mean posttest score is 12.7, and the standard deviation was 3.93. The obtained t-test value was 7.68, and the P = 0.0001 which was highly significant at the level of P = 0.000. This indicates that the feeding performance was improved after oral stimulation.
Conclusion:
The study concluded that oral stimulation is useful for enhancing feeding performance, as evidenced by the notable improvement in feeding performance. |
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| ISSN: | 0974-5009 2278-7127 |