Qualitative study on the experience of fathers involved in kangaroo care of premature infants

Application Study of Nursing Intervention Program under NIDCAP Philosophy in the Early Life of Extremely Low Birth Weight Infants

“…In this study, the NIDCAPl group achieved complete oral feeding at 35.14w of gestational age, earlier than the control group at 36w, proving that the NIDCAP nursing intervention program can effectively shorten the time for extremely low birth weight infants to reach full oral feeding. The reasons may be as follows: previous NICU care modes often follow medical tasks and diagnostic routines [10], with many atypical stimuli in this specific environment, such as sudden changes in body position, sudden aspiration, blood collection, excessively high sound and light, all of which can cause changes in cerebral blood flow [11], leading to abnormal vital signs, which are not conducive to the growth and development of extremely low birth weight infants [12]. The implementation of the NIDCAP nursing intervention program allows healthcare professionals to develop individualized nursing plans based on the actual situation of the infant, optimizing the ward environment, controlling sound and light within an ideal range, improving the sleep quality of the infant, as much as possible implementing individualized nursing operations, performing operations during the infant's awake state [13], combining non-nutritional sucking during feeding, active breastfeeding strategies [14,15], to a large extent, accelerating the process of complete oral feeding and achieving better weight gain.…”