Use of a Video-Ethnographic Intervention (PRECESS) to Improve Skin-to-Skin & Breastfeeding Rates

What is it about?

This paper describes a five-day process of video-ethnography and interaction analysis—PRECESS—to improve quality of care in a hospital setting, and provides data to evaluate the effectiveness of the intervention.

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Why is it important?

Skin-to-skin care after birth often is absent, interrupted, or delayed for routine procedures. The PRECESS immersion method may help to rapidly improve skin-to-skin care. Babies who undergo all nine stages during skin-to-skin care may be more likely to exclusively breastfeed, and skin-to-skin care during cesarean surgery may reduce maternal stress and improve satisfaction with the surgical experience.