Immediate skin-to-skin contact at very preterm birth and effect on infant socio-emotional stress response and mother–infant cortisol co-regulation : secondary outcomes from the randomised clinical Immediate Parent-Infant Skin-To-Skin Study (IPISTOSS)
Objective To explore the effects of immediate parent–infant skin-to-skin contact (iSSC) at very preterm birth on maternal–infant behavioural responses and hypothalamic–pituitary–adrenal (HPA) axis reactivity to age-appropriate socio-emotional stress at 4months corrected age. Design Two secondary outcomes from a multicentre randomised controlled trial with two non-blinded parallel groups. Setting T
