TY  - BOOK
AU  - Peter Kamiel Fakhery Ghaly
AU  - Manal Salah El Dein
AU  - Mohamed  Ahmed Abo El-Hasan
TI  - Effect of Nonnutritive Sucking Stimulation on Incubation Duration in Low Birth Weight Infants
U1  - 615.82 
PY  - 2023///
KW  -  Pediatric Physical Therapy
KW  - qrmak
KW  - Low birth weight
KW  - Non-nutritive-sucking stimulation
KW  - Preterm infant
N1  - Thesis (M.Sc.)-Cairo University, 2023; Bibliography: pages57-68.; Issued also as CD
N2  - Background: Low-birth-weight infants (LBWIs) are at an increased risk twenty times 
more likely to die than others, those infants are in more dangers to live normally, due to 
poor sucking, so it was of great importance to find a way to stimulate sucking. 
Nonnutritive Sucking Stimulation is recognized for enhancing successful feeding. 
Purpose: This study aimed to determine the effect of using nonnutritive sucking 
stimulation on improving the infant suction power and its reflection on the incubation 
duration for LBWIs. 
Subjects and procedures: Sixty LBWI infants ranged in age from 30 to 36 gestational 
weeks of both sexes participated in this study. They were selected from the neonatal 
intensive care unit of Om El Masryeen and Abo el Reesh hospitals. They were assigned 
randomly into two groups of equal number representing study and control groups. Study 
Group in which infants received their medical treatment in addition to a selected 
physical therapy intervention aiming to improve their nutritive abilities during 
incubation period while infants in the control group subjected to medical treatment 
only. Treatment for the study group was conducted three times per day from date of 
admission until the infant reached grade 4-point ordinal scale in functional oral intake 
scale (FOIS). Results: There was a statistically significant increase in oral functional 
intake scale measures post treatment in the control and study groups compared with that 
of pretreatment with a statistically significant difference in post treatment values in 
favor to the study group (p > 0.05). 
Conclusions: Nonnutritive Sucking Stimulation is an effective modality that may be 
added to the treatment program used in low-birth-weight infants who have weak 
suckling; شارك في هذه الدراسة 60 طفلاً ممن يعانون من نقص الوزن تم اختيارهم من وحدة العناية المركزة لحديثي الولادة في مستشفيات أم المصريين وأبو الريش. تم تقسيمهم بشكل عشوائي إلى مجموعتين متساويتين في العدد تمثلان في مجموعة الدراسة والمجموعة الضابطة. بالنسبة للمجموعة الدراسة حيث تلقى فيها الأطفال علاجهم الطبي بالإضافة إلى تدخل علاج طبيعي محدد يهدف إلى تحسين قدراتهم الغذائية خلال فترة الحضانة بينما خضع الرضع في المجموعة الضابطة للعلاج الطبي فقط. تم إجراء برنامج العلاج الطبيعي ثلاث مرات في اليوم من تاريخ القبول حتى وصل الرضيع إلى الدرجة 4 من المقياس الترتيبي في مقياس المدخول الفموي الوظيفي (p> 0.05)
ER  -