Clinical Research Directory
Browse clinical research sites, groups, and studies.
Adolescents Born Preterm; Nurtured Beginnings
Sponsor: Boston Children's Hospital
Summary
This research study is a long-term follow-up to an earlier study of developmental care. For that study, high risk preterm newborns were randomly assigned to a standard care group, which received the standard care offered in the Newborn Intensive Care Unit (NICU) at the time, or to an experimental group, which received regular behavioral observations to determine if changes in their environment or care were needed. The purpose of the current study is to assess the functioning of these infants again, now that they are adolescents and to compare the groups to determine if the developmental care used in the original study is effective long-term.
Official title: Adolescents Born Preterm: Nurtured Beginnings
Key Details
Gender
All
Age Range
14 Years - 18 Years
Study Type
INTERVENTIONAL
Enrollment
46
Start Date
2005-01
Completion Date
2019-12-30
Last Updated
2026-10-28
Healthy Volunteers
No
Conditions
Interventions
Individualized Developmental Care in the NICU
Newborn Individualized Developmental Care and Assessment Program (NIDCAP) utilizes close observation of each infant's thresholds of moving from organization to disorganization and stress, as exhibited by the infant's behavior. Care and environment are then continuously and dynamically adjusted to increase the infant's self-regulation and organization and decrease the infant's stress. This individualized model of NICU care provides an opportunity to investigate the modifiability of very early born infants' brain function and structure and the possibility of reducing or altogether eliminating the disruption and disturbance of fetal brain development in the NICU.
Locations (1)
Children's Hospital Boston
Boston, Massachusetts, United States