A survey of Compliance of kangaroo mother care with the Standards of the Ministry of Health and Medical Education in Premature Infant

Introduction: The positive effects of kangaroo mother care which can be pointed, in order to fulfill the needs of the premature infant to, heat, breast-feeding, infection protection, motivating breastfeeding in the mother tenderness, and reducing the pain. The aim of the present study was to investigate the compliance of kangaroo mother care audits of mothers with newborns admitted to Tabriz Alzahra Hospital with the standards of the Ministry of Health and Medical Education. Methods:  This descriptive cross-sectional study 600 mothers had premature infants in NICU and newborns from August to February 2017 at Alzahra Medical Education Center. The data were collected through a researcher-made questionnaire including Environmental equipment and nursing care during the care process, which was made based on the criteria and standard of care provided by the Ministry of Health. SPSS13 and descriptive statistics, inferential statistics and t-test were used to analyze the data. Based on the scores obtained from the questionnaire, the status of executive care was categorized in three categories: as, desirable, relatively desirable and undesirable Results: The results of the environmental factors questionnaire scores are 90% and infant factors 95%, both of which are in the desired range. These results indicate that the implementation of cure maintenance is almost standard in the Ministry of Health and Medical Education at the Alzahra Educational Cente. Conclusion: According to the results, the implementation of care in the Alzahra Educational Center is close to the standards of the Ministry of Health and Medical Education. This study identified negative affective factors and will be placed on the priority of the hospitalchr('39')s strategic problems.