taste sensation for preterm infants
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The hypothesis is that the taste sensation promotes feeding and growth outcomes in preterm infants with gastric tube.This trial data showed higher weight and head circumference z scores at 36 weeks’ postmenstrual age and discharge, less feeding intolerance and better feeding performance in preterm infants with taste sensation while tube feeding.
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Data analysis was conducted using IBM SPSS Statistics for Windows, version 25.0 (IBM Corp.), and R Studio, version 4.1.2 (R Core Team, 2021). The primary outcome, weight z-scores at discharge, along with other anthropometric measurements, were analyzed using generalized estimating equation (GEE) model, with group and time as main effects and baseline values included as covariates. Time-to-event outcomes, for instance time to full enteral feeding and time to full oral feeding, were assessed using survival analysis (Kaplan-Meier curves and log-rank test). Other continuously distributed and categorical outcomes were analyzed using two-sample t-tests, the Mann-Whitney U test, and chi-square tests as appropriate.