NCT02528227

NICU Parent Education Program

• Status: Completed
• Phase: N/A
• Study type: Interventional
• Enrollment: 95 (actual)
• Sponsor: Women and Infants Hospital of Rhode Island · Academic / Other
• Sex: All
• Age: 23 Weeks – 32 Weeks
• Healthy volunteers: Not accepted

Summary

The purpose of this study is to adminster one of two education programs to parents of preterm infants in the NICU to evaluate language and cognitive outcomes of their infants.

Detailed description

The long term goal of this research is to determine the language environment necessary in the NICU for very preterm infants to optimize their long-term language and cognitive development. This study will pilot an early language intervention with parents of preterm infants in the NICU the purpose of which is to provide a structured curriculum for the family to guide their language interactions with their infant. The aim is to increase the adult word counts and conversational turns in the NICU and to improve Bayley III language and cognitive scores at 12 months and 24 months corrected age. The hypotheses is that increasing early language exposure in the NICU will result in improved lanugage and cognitive scores. The investigators plan on testing the hypothesis by the following specific aims. 1. Determine the effectiveness of a structured language curriculum with parents of preterm infants in the NICU on increasing the amount of early language exposure. 2. Test the the hypothesis that increased early language exposure will result in higher Bayley III language and cognitive scores.

Conditions

• Language Development
• Premature Infant
• Neurodevelopmental Outcomes

Interventions

Type	Name	Description
OTHER	Know Your Baby Language Curriculum	Early language activities that parents can do with their infants
OTHER	Reading Aloud Language Curriculum	Early language activity that parents can do with their infants
OTHER	Sing A Long Language Curriculum	Early language activity that parents can do with their infants
OTHER	Mimicking First Sounds Language Curriculum	Early language activity that parents can do with their infants
OTHER	Language Games and Narrating Your Day Language Curriculum	Early language activity that parents can do with their infants
OTHER	Feeding Safety	Part of Health and Safety Curriculum
OTHER	Car Seat Safety	Part of Health and Safety Curriculum
OTHER	Bath Safety	Part of Health and Safety Curriculum
OTHER	Back to Sleep/SIDS prevention	Part of Health and Safety Curriculum
OTHER	Taking a Temperature and Signs of Infection	Part of Health and Safety Curriculum
OTHER	Infection Control Measures and Vaccine Information	Part of Health and Safety Curriculum

Timeline

• Start date: 2013-01-01
• Primary completion: 2020-12-31
• Completion: 2020-12-31
• First posted: 2015-08-19
• Last updated: 2022-05-03

Locations

1 site across 1 country: United States