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Infant-Maternal Partnership and Cognitive Training Study for Preterm Infants

NCT06335524 · Status: RECRUITING · Phase: NA · Type: INTERVENTIONAL · Enrollment: 188

Last updated 2025-12-29

No results posted yet for this study

Summary

This study will test the hypothesis that in preterm infants a caregiver-implemented early developmental intervention (EDI) using finger puppets to develop joint attention and encourage interactive communication with routine EDI care including Bookworm training compared with routine EDI care including Bookworm training alone will increase the Ages and Stages Questionnaire® score at 12 months corrected age.

Conditions

  • Child Development
  • Infant Development
  • Infant, Premature, Diseases

Interventions

BEHAVIORAL

Finger puppet

The intervention group will receive finger-puppets and additional training pertaining to infant parent interaction and developmentally appropriate infant communication training.

BEHAVIORAL

Bookworm reading intervention training and routine EDI care.

Routine EDI care including Bookworm training.

Sponsors & Collaborators

  • University of Alabama at Birmingham

    lead OTHER

Principal Investigators

  • Colm P Travers · University of Alabama at Birmingham

Study Design

Allocation
RANDOMIZED
Purpose
TREATMENT
Masking
DOUBLE
Model
PARALLEL

Eligibility

Min Age
1 Week
Max Age
17 Weeks
Sex
ALL
Healthy Volunteers
No

Timeline & Regulatory

Start
2024-11-01
Primary Completion
2026-12-31
Completion
2028-12-31

Countries

  • United States

Study Locations

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