A Pre-Experimental Study To Evaluate The Effectiveness Of Kangaroo Mother Care On Physiological Parameters Among Preterm Infants Admitted In NICU

Introduction: Kangaroo Mother Care (KMC) is skin-to-skin contact between a mother and her newborn, frequent and promoting effective thermal control, exclusive breastfeeding, prevention from infection, and early discharge from the hospital have been effective in reducing the risk of mortality and bonding among preterm and low birth weight infants with the mother. Aims: The aim of the study was to evaluate the effectiveness of kangaroo-mother care on physiological parameters among preterm infants Admitted in NICU in a selected hospital at Delhi/NCR. Method: A pre-experimental research design was used for the study. Non-probability Purposive sampling technique was used for selecting the samples for study. The sample consists of 30 preterm Infants admitted in the NICU. Tools developed and used for data collection were: structured physiological parameters record sheet. The data was analyzed and interpreted as per the objective and the research hypothesis stated. Descriptive and inferential Statistics were used for data analysis. Results: The result showed that there was a significant difference between the mean of the post-test scores and as obtained ‘t' value of physiological parameters in the temperature post-test(2.9) „t‟ value (15.29 ),Respiratory rate post-test(2.9) ‘t' value(10.81), Heart Rate post- test (2.93)„t' value (13.58),Oxygen Saturation post-test score (2.96) “t” value (10.77), Weight Gain post-test score (2.9) ‘t' value(12.54) and physiological parameters scores of all parameters ,as obtained “t”-value was lower than the tabulated value for df (29)=2.05 at 0.05 level of significance. Conclusion: It can be inferred that Kangaroo Mother Care effective in improving the physiological parameters of preterm Infants admitted in the NICU. A similar study can be conducted with larger sample for better generalization. Various Other benefits of Kangaroo Mother Care such as a weight gain, thermoregulation and sleep duration of Preterm Infants admitted in NICU can be tried out.