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NCT05805254

Neurofunctional Study of Preterm Infants' Brain Activity

Completed Last updated 12 April 2023
What this trial tests

trial in Brain Activity in 30 participants. Completed in 8 August 2022.

Timeline
25 March 2018
Primary endpoint
8 August 2022
8 August 2022

Quick facts

Lead sponsorIRCCS Burlo Garofolo
StatusCompleted
Study typeOBSERVATIONAL
Enrollment30
Start date25 March 2018
Primary completion8 August 2022
Estimated completion8 August 2022
Sites1 location across Italy

Conditions studied

Sponsor

IRCCS Burlo Garofolo — full company profile →

Who can join

Under 28 Days, any sex, with Brain Activity or Preterm. Patients with the condition only — healthy volunteers not accepted.

Sponsor's own description

During hospital stay, a family centered therapeutic approach is increasingly seen as the preferred clinical and care model to be adopted, since it is effective in promoting the neurobehavioral development of the infant and the psychophysical health of the family. In preterm infant, parental relationship and parental relationship-centered interventions, such as kangaroo mother care (KMC), are actively promoted. Studies carried out with electroencephalography showed that preterm infants who participated in KMC interventions have, when reach term equivalent age, a similar level of maturity as healthy full-term infants. It has also been observed that KMC carried out in preterm infant with gestational age \<33 weeks promotes adequate development of the primary motor cortex during adolescence. Recent scientific evidence showed an early response to relational stimulations, in particular to their emotional content, of term infants. After few days of life, the infant's brain picks up messages from the human context and interacts with them. For example, a study using near-infrared spectroscopy (NIRS) showed increased activation of the right frontal cortex in infants in association with their mother's direct speech. Similar neuroimaging studies have not yet been conducted in preterm infants during hospitalization. The aim of this study is to assess the activation of the cerebral cortex of the preterm infant in the course of 1) KMC and 2) listening to their mother's voice, using optical topography, a multichannel NIRS system.

Publications & conference data

No peer-reviewed publications indexed yet for this trial. Completed trials usually publish results within 12-18 months.

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