Huda Shawky Mahmud Muhammad <br/><br/>
Effect of oil massage on anthropometric parameters and behavioral state of stable low birth weight neonates /  
 تأثير التدليك العلاجى بواسطة الزيت على القياسات الأنثروبومترية و الحالة السلوكية للمواليد ناقصى الوزن 
Huda Shawky Mahmud Muhammad ; Supervised Soheir Abdelhamid Dabash , Elham Mohamed Ahmed , Ragia Mohamed Kamel 
 - Cairo :   Huda Shawky Mahmud Muhammad ,   2016 
 - 105 , 14 P. :   charts ;   30cm 
<br/><br/>Thesis (Ph.D.) - Cairo University - Faculty of Nursing - Department of Pediatric Nursing  
<br/><br/> Low birth weight is a major health problem and a significant contributor to neonatal  death in both industrialized and developing countries (Deshpande Jayant, et al., 2011).  Tripathy, (2014) reported that the global prevalence of LBW is 17%, which means that about  25 million neonates worldwide, such neonates are born each year, and the WHO/UNICEF  (2014) stated that 96.5% of them in developing countries and about 219 (22%) in every 1000  neonates in Egypt is born with LBW each year. Low birth weight contributes to 60% to 80%  of peri-natal mortality and up to half of infant mortality. Teklehaimanot, Hailu, and Assefa,  (2014) reported that LBW neonates usually need extra hospital care, and there is a constant  concern and uncertainty over future health outcomes. Neonatal intensive care for these  neonates is ranked the most costly of all hospitalization costs 
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<br/><br/><label>Subjects--Index Terms: </label>Anthropometric parameters low birth weight neonates Oil massage therapy