NCT01779661

Infant Aquatics Neurodevelopment Premature Infants

The Effect of Infant Aquatics for Neurodevelopment of Premature Infants

• Status: Unknown
• Phase: N/A
• Study type: Interventional
• Enrollment: 100 (estimated)
• Sponsor: Sheba Medical Center · Other Government
• Sex: All
• Age: 1 Week – 4 Weeks
• Healthy volunteers: Accepted

Summary

The objective of this research is to examine the effect of Infant Aquatics on the development of and neurodevelopment of preterm and near-term infants, using the GM as prognostic estimation of future development. Preterm infants, a continuously growing population, are at high risk for neurodevelopment impairments ranging from minor neurological dysfunction (MND) to cerebral palsy (CP), mainly due to developmental brain injury. Infant Aquatics have been found to benefit and promote infant development. The support and sensory stimulation of the water may improve the development the sensory, motor, as well as, autonomic system of preterm infants. The study will compare intervention by Infant Aquatics to infant massage. The intervention in both methods will start at 36 weeks gestational age for 3 months and will consist of sessions with a therapist every 2 weeks. Development will be assessed and compared at 3, 8 and 18 months using Infant Motor Pattern method, Griffith developmental scales and Vineland adaptive behavior scales.

Conditions

• Cerebral Palsy
• Preterm Birth
• Development

Interventions

Type	Name	Description
OTHER	Infant Aquatics	Infant Aquatics in this study is composed of a set of pre-structured movements and techniques of relaxation, through harmonic integration of various approaches, each having a role in a specific time-window or in the infant's developmental sequence along study interventional timeline
OTHER	Infant Massage	Infant Massage

Timeline

• Start date: 2013-04-01
• Primary completion: 2015-08-01
• First posted: 2013-01-30
• Last updated: 2014-02-13

Locations

1 site across 1 country: Israel