Coconut and Improved Skin Condition Score

• Comparison of Coconut and Sunflower Seed Oils in Improving the Skin Integrity and Weight Gain of Infants in the Neonatal ICU.

  • 2024-11
  • RCT
  • Advances in skin & wound care 37(11&12)
  • • Öznur Tiryaki
    • Hamide Zengin
    • Nursan Çınar
    • Meltem Karabay
    • İbrahim Caner
    • Ertuğrul Güçlü

  • PubMed: 39792519
  • DOI: 10.1097/asw.0000000000000241

  2 Insights on

  • Improved Skin Condition Score

  • High evidence
  • Clinical

  Mean Neonatal Skin Condition Score scores were significantly higher in the control group at 1 month postdischarge than in the sunflower seed oil and coconut oil groups (P = .000).

  Effect

  Beneficial

  Effect size

  Small

  Significant

  Yes

  Dose

  topical application (not specified further)