NCT06927037

Immersive Physical Therapy in the Neonatal Intensive Care Unit (NICU)

Immersive Physical Therapy in the NICU: Comparing Delivery Models to Improve Infant and Parent Outcomes

• Status: Recruiting
• Phase: —
• Study type: Observational
• Enrollment: 150 (estimated)
• Sponsor: University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill · Academic / Other
• Sex: All
• Age: 0 Years – 99 Years
• Healthy volunteers: Not accepted

Summary

To learn if and how the physical and occupational therapy program in the Newborn Critical Care Center helps parents with their stress levels and ability to meet the needs of their preterm infants.

Detailed description

Composed of one retrospective group and two prospective groups. Each group will be defined based on the stage of enrollment, which will coincide with the rollout of two different standard-of-care initiatives in the hospital. These initiatives are determined outside of the study protocol. The retrospective group will be composed of infants that are under the current initiative. The small baby unit will then be implemented within the hospital site, and infants and parents enrolled at that time will reflect the impact of the small baby unit. The small baby unit will then transition into an immersive physical therapy model, and any infants and parents enrolled at that time will reflect the impact of this second-tier initiative.

Conditions

• Physical Therapy
• NICU Infants

Timeline

• Start date: 2025-11-01
• Primary completion: 2027-06-01
• Completion: 2027-06-01
• First posted: 2025-04-15
• Last updated: 2026-02-17

Locations

1 site across 1 country: United States