Status:
UNKNOWN
Skin-to-skin Contact in Neonatal Intensive Care Unit (NICU), Caregiving Touch and Neural Correlates of Slow Stroking Touch in Preterm Infants
Lead Sponsor:
IRCCS Eugenio Medea
Conditions:
Preterm Birth
Parent-Child Relations
Eligibility:
All Genders
6-10 years
Brief Summary
Preterm (PT) infants spend their first weeks of life in Neonatal Intensive Care Unit (NICU) where receive little affective physical contact, which plays a crucial role in brain development. Evidence i...
Detailed Description
Background and rationale One way of operationalizing social touch has been provided by the correspondence between properties of much naturalistic affiliative interpersonal touch and the unique tuning ...
Eligibility Criteria
Inclusion
- Preterm infants (clinical sample)
- Gestational age (GA) \< or = 37 weeks
- age-appropriate neurological examination
Exclusion
- presence of perinatal injuries/genetic syndromes
- documented neurological pathology
- presence of sensory deficits
- Full-term infants (control sample)
- Inclusion Criteria:
- Gestational age (GA) \> 37 weeks
- age-appropriate neurological examination
Key Trial Info
Start Date :
December 2 2019
Trial Type :
OBSERVATIONAL
Allocation :
ESTIMATED
End Date :
September 4 2024
Estimated Enrollment :
50 Patients enrolled
Trial Details
Trial ID
NCT04293939
Start Date
December 2 2019
End Date
September 4 2024
Last Update
October 18 2023
Active Locations (1)
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Associalzione La Nostra Famiglia - IRCCS Eugenio Medea
Bosisio Parini, Lecco, Italy, 23842