Designing dress (Sarbebe) for kangaroo care, the effect of kangaroo care provided with this dress on mother and newborn's comfort†

Abstract

The aims of the researchers were to design the clothes to be worn by the mothers in kangaroo care (KC) and to determine the effect of the KC provided with these clothes on the comfort of the mother and infant. This study was experimentally carried out as a methodological, randomized controlled trial for the designing of clothes for KC. Data were collected using the Parent and Newborn Information Form, KC Comfort Scale and Newborn Comfort Behavior Scale (Comfort-Neo). The body temperature, heart rate, oxygen saturation, respiration rate parameters of the newborns were evaluated. The data were transferred to the IBM SPSS Statistics 23 program and evaluated. Our results showed that the KC Comfort Scale total score was 71.1 +/- 14.8 in the control group and 84.0 +/- 1.5 in the intervention group and Newborn Comfort Behavior Scale total scores were found to be 12.47 +/- 6.90 in the control group and 8.67 +/- 3.46 in the intervention group. It was determined that the KC Comfort Scale (z: -4.785 p: 0.000) in the intervention group were significantly higher compared to the control group (p < 0.05). Pain (z: -4.439 p: 0.000) and distress (z: -4.601 p: 0.000) levels of the control group were found to be significantly higher compared to the intervention group. Sarbebe is recommended to be used in KC practices since it was concluded that maternal comfort and satisfaction was high and the pain and distress scores of the newborn were low after KC provided with Sarbebe.