A study to evaluate the effectiveness of non–nutritive sucking to facilitate oral feeding in newborns in terms of level of comfort and selected physiological parameters and to develop and validate the procedural guidelines for nursing personnel in selected hospitals of Delhi/NCR.

Pooja  Singh; Dr. (Mrs.) Molly Babu

Volume : VII, Issue : V, May - 2017

A study to evaluate the effectiveness of non–nutritive sucking to facilitate oral feeding in newborns in terms of level of comfort and selected physiological parameters and to develop and validate the procedural guidelines for nursing personnel in selected hospitals of Delhi/NCR.

Pooja Singh, Dr. Mrs. Molly Babu

Abstract :

The objectives of experimental study were to assess and evaluate the effectiveness of non–nutritive sucking to facilitate oral feeding in newborns and develop procedural guidelines on non–nutritive sucking. The Intervention was given for 7 days for total 10 minutes before gavage feeding based on Pretest Post–test control group design. The samples consisted of 60 selected by purposive sampling with random assignment and 20 nursing personnel available during the period of data collection. Major findings were that there was a significant improvement in the level of comfort and selected physiological parameters in terms of heart rate, oxygen saturation and body weight after 7 days of non–nutritive sucking. Association values were found significant between: heart rate and newborn age, oxygen saturation and gestational age and body weight and birth weight. The structured opinionnaire revealed that the procedural guideline was found to be acceptable and useful.