Status:

RECRUITING

Optimising Kangaroo Care to Reduce Neonatal Severe Infection/Sepsis and Resistant Bacterial Colonisation Among High-risk Infants in NICU.

Lead Sponsor:

PENTA Foundation

Collaborating Sponsors:

St George's, University of London

European Clinical Research Alliance for Infectious Diseases (ECRAID)

Conditions:

Infection, Bacterial

Eligibility:

All Genders

Up to 36 years

Phase:

NA

Brief Summary

NeoDeco is a pragmatic, multicenter, parallel group, cluster randomised hybrid effectiveness-implementation study with baseline assessment, wash-in period and staggered randomisation. All sites will b...

Detailed Description

The NeoDECO trial is a cluster-randomized trial involving up to 24 neonatal units across 5 European countries: Switzerland, Italy, Greece, Spain, and the United Kingdom. Sites will be grouped into tw...

Eligibility Criteria

Inclusion

  • In NeoDeco there are no participant inclusion or exclusion criteria because this is a cluster randomised trial, so the intervention will be applied to all babies admitted to the neonatal intensive care unit as a cluster.
  • However, the neonatal intensive care units will have to meet the following criteria to be involved in the study:
  • European NICUs that provide routine care of extremely premature infants (\< 28 weeks' gestational age).
  • Minimum number of 12 beds offering highest level of neonatal intensive care.
  • Availability of or access to -70 to -80°C freezer for storage of research samples.
  • Willing to implement optimised KC if allocated to the intervention group.
  • Willing to commit to offering the minimum expected target duration or an increase of 50% if NICU is already offering the minimum expected target duration, if allocated to the intervention arm.
  • Prepared to implement NeoIPC surveillance
  • Adequate resources and expertise and approvals from relevant Research Ethics Committees, as appropriate.

Exclusion

  • NICU already practices 'long-term' StSC of \> 18 hours. Major expected changes in resistant bacterial colonisation pressure during the study period, for example due to planned move to a new ward.
  • Participation in other interventional IPC research projects which might directly influence the study intervention or outcome.

Key Trial Info

Start Date :

May 28 2024

Trial Type :

INTERVENTIONAL

Allocation :

ESTIMATED

End Date :

March 1 2026

Estimated Enrollment :

3080 Patients enrolled

Trial Details

Trial ID

NCT05993442

Start Date

May 28 2024

End Date

March 1 2026

Last Update

December 27 2024

Active Locations (10)

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University General Hospital Attikon

Attiki, Greece

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University Hospital of Heraklion

Heraklion, Greece

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Ioannina University Hospital

Ioannina, Greece

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Hippokration Hospital - Thessaloniki

Thessaloniki, Greece