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Lea Sirota
Researcher at Boston Children's Hospital
Publications - 3
Citations - 1078
Lea Sirota is an academic researcher from Boston Children's Hospital. The author has contributed to research in topics: Kangaroo care & Child development. The author has an hindex of 3, co-authored 3 publications receiving 1007 citations.
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Comparison of skin-to-skin (Kangaroo) and traditional care: Parenting outcomes and preterm infant development
TL;DR: It is speculated that kangaroo care has both a direct impact on infant development by contributing to neurophysiological organization and an indirect effect by improving parental mood, perceptions, and interactive behavior.
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Skin-to-skin contact (kangaroo care) promotes self-regulation in premature infants: Sleep-wake cyclicity, arousal modulation, and sustained exploration.
TL;DR: The results underscore the importance of maternal body contact for infants' physiological, emotional, and cognitive regulatory capacities.
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Testing a family intervention hypothesis: the contribution of mother-infant skin-to-skin contact (kangaroo care) to family interaction, proximity, and touch
TL;DR: Following kangaroo care, mothers and fathers were more sensitive and less intrusive, infants showed less negative affect, and family style was more cohesive, and the role of touch as a constituent of the co-regulatory parent-infant and triadic systems is discussed.