Akkaya-Gül, Ayşenur https://orcid.org/0000-0001-9019-8740
Özyazıcıoğlu, Nurcan https://orcid.org/0000-0001-9645-7221
Çelikboya-Kabadayı, Ezgi https://orcid.org/0000-0001-7485-9326
Article History
Received: 9 February 2025
Revised: 17 August 2025
Accepted: 11 September 2025
First Online: 6 October 2025
Competing interests
: The authors declare that they have no known competing financial interests or personal relationships that could have appeared to influence the work reported in this paper.
: Ethical approval was granted from the University of Health Sciences Süreyyapaşa Chest Diseases and Thoracic Surgery Clinical Research Ethics Committee before starting the study (protocol number 063). After obtaining the ethics committee’s approval, permissions were obtained from the T.R. Istanbul Provincial Health Directorate (no: 15916306-604.02.99) and the management of Istanbul Tuzla State Hospital (no: 47150177-604.01.01). In addition, written informed consent was received from the families of the newborns in the control and intervention groups.