The impact of the kangaroo mother method on nursing care for preterm and low birth weight infants in Brazil
International Journal of Development Research
The impact of the kangaroo mother method on nursing care for preterm and low birth weight infants in Brazil
Received 17th August, 2019; Received in revised form 06th September, 2019; Accepted 14th October, 2019; Published online 30th November, 2019
Copyright © 2019, Dayane Ferreira de Castro et al. This is an open access article distributed under the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
Objective: to analyze the impact of the kangaroo mother method on nursing care for preterm and low birth weight infants in Brazil. Methodology: qualitative study, exploratory character, based on bibliographic studies. Results: Nineteen articles were identified in national journals that met the inclusion criteria, which deal with the kangaroo mother method. After reading the abstracts of the articles, eight were selected for the analysis. After the analysis, three categories emerged: newborn physiology in the kangaroo mother method; mother-baby binomial and the contributions of the kangaroo mother method to Nursing. Conclusion: the known benefits of the Kangaroo Mother Method are great and among these benefits the bond that strengthened during the realization of the method became clearer.
