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Review of Infant Oral Feeding and Skills

NCT06736743 · Status: ENROLLING_BY_INVITATION · Type: OBSERVATIONAL · Enrollment: 100

Last updated 2026-02-23

No results posted yet for this study

Summary

This study evaluates the infant's feeding skill level at discharge from the neonatal intensive care unit. The goal is to determine whether the ability to "full feed by volume" implies "full skill development" for infant oral feeding.

Conditions

  • Nutrition Disorders
  • Gastrointestinal Disease
  • Deglutition Disorder
  • Feeding Difficulties
  • Swallowing Difficulties
  • Humans
  • Cohort Studies
  • Infant, Newborn
  • Infant, Premature, Nutrition
  • Pediatric Feeding Disorder, Chronic
  • Retrospective Studies
  • Breastfeeding
  • Mental Health Wellness
  • Intensive Care Units, Neonatal
  • Bottle Feeding

Interventions

DIAGNOSTIC_TEST

SMART Tool for Feeding Skill Assessment

Infant Oral Feeding Skill Assessment (FSA) done using SMART Tool

Sponsors & Collaborators

  • Wake Forest University Health Sciences

    lead OTHER

Principal Investigators

  • Ravi Mishra, MD, FAAP · Advocate Health

Eligibility

Min Age
22 Weeks
Max Age
42 Weeks
Sex
ALL
Healthy Volunteers
No

Timeline & Regulatory

Start
2025-03-01
Primary Completion
2026-06-30
Completion
2026-06-30

Countries

  • United States

Study Locations

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