• Metilda S Bijapur
• Goutham Bellari

ABSTRACT Background of the study The Neonatal Intensive Care Unit is specially built to prevent pain, promote quiet sleep and maintain stable physiological parameters among preterm neonates. However, preterm newborns below 32 weeks of gestational age (extreme premature) are considered high risk for developing neuromotor changes throughout their lives. The essential components of brain development in neonatal period is sleep. Nesting is individually modeled and specially designed and has proved in providing effective comfort, support and help preterm to develop normally in NICU. Neonatal Nurse requires skill, dedication and emotional strength to care for newborn, preterm and sick infants. Aims: Evaluate effectiveness of nesting on sleep pattern and physiological parameters of preterm infants and also to find the correlation between the sleep pattern with physiological parameters. Modified Kolcaba’s Comfort theory Method: Quantitative evaluative approach was used for the study. The independent variable was Nesting and dependent variable was Sleep Pattern and Physiological Parameters such as body temperature, heart and respiratory rate and weight of Preterm infant. The study was conducted on 30 preterm infants admitted in NICU of tertiary care teaching Hospital, Dharwad. Non-probability-purposive technique was used for the selection of the sample. Data was collected by using the MPPS and MPCS for sleep pattern. Results: The findings of the study revealed that there was a significant improvement in Physiological Parameters and Sleep Pattern after intervention of Nesting at ‘p’ value < 0.05 level of significance. Interpretation and Conclusion: The mean Post test score of Sleep Pattern and PP(Physiological Parameters) 6.80 and 8.97 were significantly higher than the mean pretest score of 10.37 and 7.73 the findings clearly revealed that nesting was effective in increasing the Physiological Parameters and Sleep Pattern in the Preterm Neonates. And a significant correlation at p<0.05. KEY WORDS Nesting, Physiological Parameter, Precht’s Criteria, NICU.

"An Interventional Study to Evaluate the Effectiveness of Nesting on Sleep Pattern and Physiological Parameters among Preterm Infants Admitted in NICU, Tertiary Teaching Hospital, Dharwad", International Journal of Emerging Technologies and Innovative Research (www.jetir.org), ISSN:2349-5162, Vol.10, Issue 10, page no.f1-f8, October-2023, Available :http://www.jetir.org/papers/JETIR2310501.pdf

"An Interventional Study to Evaluate the Effectiveness of Nesting on Sleep Pattern and Physiological Parameters among Preterm Infants Admitted in NICU, Tertiary Teaching Hospital, Dharwad", International Journal of Emerging Technologies and Innovative Research (www.jetir.org | UGC and issn Approved), ISSN:2349-5162, Vol.10, Issue 10, page no. ppf1-f8, October-2023, Available at : http://www.jetir.org/papers/JETIR2310501.pdf