Facilitate the Transition From Passive Feeding to Active Feeding in Preterm Infants Through Early Play (ALIJEU)

Centre Hospitalier Intercommunal Creteil

Status: Completed

Conditions: Immature Newborn; Feeding Behavior

Treatments: Behavioral: Implementation of ALIJEU

Study type: Observational

Funder types: Other

Identifiers

NCT03651258

ALIJEU

Details and patient eligibility

About

The approach described here is based both on theoretical concepts and on the work of several teams of researchers. By positioning the baby and the appropriate adult, a speech bath, a sustained look and an expressive face, it is hypothesized that this early communication exercise will significantly improve the transition from passive feeding, active feeding of the premature child, from a qualitative and quantitative point of view.

Enrollment: 59 patients

Sex: All

Ages: Under 4 weeks old

Volunteers: Accepts Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion criteria

• Age of child at birth: <32 WA justified by the greater prevalence of oral disorders in these children.
• Age of the child at the start of the study: 35 WA, ie at the beginning of the establishment of active feeding within the unit.

Exclusion criteria

• Children with oral malformations
• Contra-indication to the realization to the ALIJEU (infection in progress, hemodynamic instability, etc.)
• Medical contraindications to oral diet

Trial design

59 participants in 2 patient groups

Experimental group

Description:

patient who can benefit from the ALIJEU for certain meals

Treatment:

Behavioral: Implementation of ALIJEU

Group of witnesses

Description:

patient who did not benefit from the ALIJEU