Research Article

Chest-to-Back Skin-to-Skin Contact to Regulate Body Temperature for Low Birth Weight and/or Premature Babies: A Crossover Randomized Controlled Clinical Trial

Table 2

Skin temperature of the chest and the back of the mothers and room temperature.

VariablesStatisticsTrial arms
Chest (in °C)Back (in °C)-statistics value

Skin temperature of mothersMean33.25433.3771.2020.231
Median33.5033.60
Mode34.0034.00
Std. Dev.1.6291.556
Room temperatureMean26.2026.28
Minimum22.021.5
Maximum28.731.7
Std. Dev.1.612.02