NCT03795454

Can Singing Kangaroo Improve Outcome of Preterm Infants

Singing Kangaroos - Infant Care With Combined Auditory Intervention and Kangaroo Care

• Status: Completed
• Phase: N/A
• Study type: Interventional
• Enrollment: 140 (actual)
• Sponsor: University of Helsinki · Academic / Other
• Sex: All
• Age: 7 Days – 6 Weeks
• Healthy volunteers: Not accepted

Summary

To assess whether a musical intervention (maternal/paternal singing) during the skin-to-skin sessions (Kangaroo care) would improve the language development of the preterm infant. Infants will be randomized to singing or silence during the Kangaroo care from the age corresponding to 30th gestational week until term age (40 gestational weeks).

Detailed description

The outcomes are: a 2- (3-)year neurodevelopmental follow up \- Bayley Scales of Infant and Toddler Development, Third Edition (in Finnish in Finland and in Swedish in Sweden) At the age corresponding to term (40 gestational weeks) * Auditory event related potentials (AERPs) in electroencephalography (EEG), in Helsinki cohort * Auditory event related magnetic fields in magnetoencephalgraphy (MEG) in Karolinska cohort * Parental stress with The State Trait Anxiety Inventory (STAI)

Conditions

• Neurocognitive Dysfunction
• Language Development

Interventions

Type	Name	Description
BEHAVIORAL	Singing	Infant-directed singing and singing of self-invented songs, especially songs emerging from the interaction with the infant, are especially encouraged. The families will receive audio material of children's songs, lullabies, and lyrics of the lullabies to support them if they feel unable to accomplish the task otherwise.

Timeline

• Start date: 2013-05-03
• Primary completion: 2018-05-31
• Completion: 2023-04-06
• First posted: 2019-01-07
• Last updated: 2023-06-02