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- Title
Relationship between energy expenditure and stress behaviors of preterm infants in the neonatal intensive care unit.
- Authors
Lin, Hung-Chih; Huang, Li-Chi; Li, Tsai-Chung; Chen, Chau-Huei; Bachman, Jean; Peng, Niang-Huei
- Abstract
Purpose This research evaluated the relationship between behaviors and energy expenditure in preterm infants receiving nursing interventions. Design and Methods This study was an explorative secondary data analysis from a previous study. The current study investigated energy expenditure calculated using heart rate-based energy expenditure-estimate across 500 repeated measures for 37 infants. Results Research results indicate that preterm infants expend more energy when they show the following seven behaviors: grimace, sucking, diffusion squirm, fist, gape face, salute, and sneezing. Practice Implications The interventions for preterm infants should be flexible, according to the infant's stress behaviors and conditions of energy expenditure.
- Subjects
TAIWAN; BODY weight; CONFIDENCE intervals; ENERGY metabolism in children; FACIAL expression; GESTATIONAL age; HEART beat; INFANT psychology; PREMATURE infants; INTENSIVE care nursing; LONGITUDINAL method; NEONATAL intensive care; NURSING practice; ORAL habits; PAIN; PROBABILITY theory; RESEARCH; STATISTICAL sampling; SENSORY stimulation; PHYSIOLOGICAL stress; THERAPEUTICS; MULTIPLE regression analysis; SECONDARY analysis; NEONATAL intensive care units; REPEATED measures design; DATA analysis software; DESCRIPTIVE statistics; ODDS ratio
- Publication
Journal for Specialists in Pediatric Nursing, 2014, Vol 19, Issue 4, p331
- ISSN
1539-0136
- Publication type
Journal Article
- DOI
10.1111/jspn.12087