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Home Phototherapy for Term Newborns With Icterus

NCT03536078 · Status: COMPLETED · Phase: NA · Type: INTERVENTIONAL · Enrollment: 147

Last updated 2021-03-11

No results posted yet for this study

Summary

The study is designed as a randomised controlled multicenter study.The primary aim is to investigate if home phototherapy improves parent-child bonding compared to if treatment is performed at the hospital. The investigators will also istudy how home phototherapy is perceived by the parents, impact on breastfeeding and parents stress levels, if the method can be implemented etc.

Patients are included at 5 hospitals in Sweden. The plan is to include 250 term newborns with neonatal icterus at a level that needs phototherapy treatment.

Conditions

  • Neonatal Hyperbilirubinemia

Interventions

OTHER

home phototherapy

Sponsors & Collaborators

  • Region Örebro County

    lead OTHER

Principal Investigators

  • Mats Eriksson, Professor · Örebro university, Region Orebro County

Study Design

Allocation
RANDOMIZED
Purpose
TREATMENT
Masking
SINGLE
Model
PARALLEL

Eligibility

Min Age
48 Hours
Sex
ALL
Healthy Volunteers
No

Timeline & Regulatory

Start
2016-06-30
Primary Completion
2019-06-26
Completion
2019-06-26

Countries

  • Sweden

Study Locations

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