Ventajas de la aplicación del Plan Canguro para fomentar el apego precoz y el Vínculo Madre-Hijo en beneficio de la Lactancia Materna

• DOI: 10.22533/at.ed.2422330101

• Palavras-chave: Lactancia Materna, Apego Precoz, Plan Canguro, Conocimiento, Beneficios.

• Keywords: Breastfeeding, Early Attachment, Kangaroo Plan, Knowledge, Benefits

• Abstract: The focus of the implementation of the Kangaroo Plan protocol on the knowledge of professionals and students in the Health area , integrates the positioning, importance and benefits for the newborn and the mother. The kangaroo plan consists of early skin-to-skin contact between a woman and her baby, currently approximately 4% to 16% (WHO 2023) of births are premature and low birth weight children, figures that are worrying due to the repercussions they have on society and the family nucleus and the quality of life that these newborns could have taking into account the multiple risks and complications they face. The basic principles of the plan consider warmth, breastfeeding, and attachment position paramount in the management of infants. By applying a survey to a focus group of health personnel on the topic, an observational, transversal quantitative study was carried out, which shows that at the beginning of the training provided the group  40.08% of prior knowledge and  to end training  it performs a new measurement that denotes a 15.75% increase in knowledge, which reaches a total of 55.83% progress. KEYWORDS: Breastfeeding, Early Attachment, Kangaroo Plan, Knowledge, Benefits.