Evaluation of the possible effects of phototherapy on the nonnutritive sucking patterns in newborn infants

: The eventual incidence of the phototherapy on the patterns of the nonnutritive sucking in the neonate at term has been evaluated. The comparison between the two groups of newborns (those in phototherapy treatment and the control group), allowed us to make a conclusion that the phototherapy does not affect in a significant way the patterns of the nonnutritive sucking in the newborns at term, as it is shown from the evaluation of the t-student test p less than 0.01.