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Helping Our Premature Infants ON to Better Motor Skills (HOP-ON)

U

University of Nottingham

Status

Completed

Conditions

Motor Development of Premature Infants

Treatments

Other: SMILES
Other: HOP-ON

Study type

Interventional

Funder types

Other

Identifiers

Details and patient eligibility

About

Infants born very premature have biological risk factors for later developmental coordination disorder. Parental stereotyping of infants as fragile and other environmental factors, such as spending long periods laying on their backs, also contribute to motor delay. This study aims to develop and evaluate a computer-based intervention (Helping Our Premature infants ON to better motor skills - HOP-ON) for parents of preterm infants. HOP-ON will model evidence based strategies to develop infants' fine and gross motor skills, and aims to reduce parental stereotyping. It is hypothesised that infants whose parents receive the HOPON CD-ROM/DVD and Booklet will have better motor skills at 12 months adjusted age compared to those whose parents receive a control CD-ROM/DVD and booklet. Parents of infants born at less than 32 weeks gestation (target n = 138) will be recruited prior to discharge from the neonatal unit and randomised to either HOP-ON or control. The primary outcome is motor score (Bayleys III) at 12 months adjusted age. Other outcomes are parental confidence and perceptions of infant capability at 3 months and quality of movement, infant growth, fine and gross motor movement and parenting stress at 12 months. Data will be analysed blind to study condition and on an intention to treat basis.

Enrollment

160 patients

Sex

All

Volunteers

No Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion criteria

  • Preterm infants born less than 32 weeks of gestation, and progressing well enough to have either been recently discharged from hospital, or being discharged from hospital within the next two weeks.
  • Parent/s aged between 16-60 years of age, who have a preterm infant - born less than 32 weeks of gestation.

Both parent and infant inclusion criteria must be met for inclusion in the study.

Exclusion criteria

  • Parent/s of infants who are still receiving hospital care at 3 months adjusted age, and their premature infants who are still receiving hospital care at 3 months adjusted age.
  • Parent/s of multiple births, where the number of infants is greater than two (three of more infants).
  • To avoid excessive travel costs, infants born outside the defined catchment area will be excluded from the study. There are no other exclusion criteria.

Trial design

Primary purpose

Health Services Research

Allocation

Randomized

Interventional model

Parallel Assignment

Masking

Single Blind

160 participants in 2 patient groups

HOP-ON intervention
Experimental group
Description:
Participants will receive a CD-ROM (or DVD and booklet if no access to computer) highlighting motor skills which could be encouraged with premature infants
Treatment:
Other: HOP-ON
SMILES
Active Comparator group
Description:
Participants will received a CD-ROM (or DVD and booklet if no access to a computer) which contains information on interacting with their premature infant
Treatment:
Other: SMILES

Trial contacts and locations

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