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A Longitudinal Study of Effectiveness of Early Intervention for Preterm Infants

NCT00946244 · Status: COMPLETED · Type: OBSERVATIONAL · Enrollment: 183

Last updated 2017-02-23

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Summary

The main purpose of this study is to extend the investigators' previous research to longitudinally examine the effectiveness of three early intervention programs: usual care program, clinic-based intervention program and home-based intervention program for very low birth weight preterm children at 3 and 4 years of age. Normal weight full-term children will also be included to serve as the reference group. Effectiveness assessments will include child, parenting, and transactions measures. Child outcome measures will include health status, growth, neurodevelopment and behavior; parenting outcome measures will include parental stress, competence, efficacy and family support; transactions outcome measure will include parent-child interaction procedures.

Conditions

  • Premature Birth

Sponsors & Collaborators

  • National Taiwan University Hospital

    lead OTHER

Principal Investigators

  • Suh-Fang Jeng, Sc.D · National Taiwan University

Eligibility

Min Age
3 Years
Max Age
4 Years
Sex
ALL
Healthy Volunteers
Yes

Timeline & Regulatory

Start
2009-08-31
Primary Completion
2012-08-31
Completion
2012-08-31

Countries

  • Taiwan

Study Locations

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