Can Singing Kangaroo Improve Outcome of Preterm Infants (SingKang)

University of Helsinki

Status: Completed

Conditions: Language Development; Neurocognitive Dysfunction

Treatments: Behavioral: Singing

Study type: Interventional

Funder types: Other

Identifiers

NCT03795454

IRB00003181SK

Details and patient eligibility

About

To assess whether a musical intervention (maternal/paternal singing) during the skin-to-skin sessions (Kangaroo care) would improve the language development of the preterm infant. Infants will be randomized to singing or silence during the Kangaroo care from the age corresponding to 30th gestational week until term age (40 gestational weeks).

Full description

The outcomes are:

a 2- (3-)year neurodevelopmental follow up

• Bayley Scales of Infant and Toddler Development, Third Edition (in Finnish in Finland and in Swedish in Sweden)

At the age corresponding to term (40 gestational weeks)

• Auditory event related potentials (AERPs) in electroencephalography (EEG), in Helsinki cohort
• Auditory event related magnetic fields in magnetoencephalgraphy (MEG) in Karolinska cohort
• Parental stress with The State Trait Anxiety Inventory (STAI)

Enrollment: 140 patients

Sex: All

Ages: 7 days to 6 weeks old

Volunteers: No Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion criteria

• preterm infants at 30th gestational week capable of being in Kangaroo care

Exclusion criteria

• intensive care preventing Kangaroo care

Trial design

Primary purpose: Supportive Care

Allocation: Randomized

Interventional model: Sequential Assignment

Masking: Single Blind

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140 participants in 2 patient groups

Singing Kangaroo

Experimental group

Description:

The parent is singing during the skin-to -skin sessions Musical therapeutist gives the instructions

Treatment:

Behavioral: Singing

Silent Kangaroo

No Intervention group

Description:

The parent is silent during the skin-to -skin sessions Musical therapeutist gives the instructions