Evaluation of the Effect of Immediate and Early Skin-to-Skin Contact After Cesarean on Maternal and Neonatal Parameters in the First 24 Hours: A Quasi-Experimental Study

This study was carried out as a quasi-experimental study to determine the effects of immediate and early skin-to-skin contact (SSC) applied between mother and newborn after cesarean on breastfeeding, anxiety, bleeding and newborn health in the first 24 hours. The application of the study carried out in the cesarean operating room and gynecology services of a private hospital. The required institutional permission and ethics committee approval was received. The sample consisted of 92 mother-infant couples totally, 30 of whom selected to immediate skin-to-skin contact (ISSC), 29 of whom selected to early skin-to-skin contact (ESSC), 33 of whom selected to the control group. The data was collected using Prenatal and postnatal data collection form, Breastfeeding Assessment Tool Scale (IBFAT), The State-Trait Anxiety Inventory and Maternal and newborn follow-up chart for the first 24 hours postpartum. In ISSC group, skin contact was applied within the first 5 minutes after cesarean, and applied to the ESSC group within the first hour after cesarean, and skin contact lasted 40 minutes. The data stored in the SPSS 24 program. In the analysis of the data, Independent Sample-t test, ANOVA test, Paired Sample-t test, Mann-Whitney U test, Kruskal-Wallis H test, Wilcoxon test, Bonferroni correction, Pearson and Spearman correlation coefficient and χ2 test used.