PremCry Study : Study of Ontogeny of Crying in Preterm Infants.

Centre Hospitalier Universitaire de Saint Etienne

Status: Completed

Conditions: Preterm Birth

Treatments: Other: cries longitudinally registered

Study type: Observational

Funder types: Other

Identifiers

NCT04522414

IRBN212020

Details and patient eligibility

About

Crying is a survival mechanism for babies and their almost exclusive means of expression until the age of 4 months. Babies 'cry is mostly related to pain, a feeling of hunger, discomfort or separation following the departure of a parent around. Crying is a complex but essential means of communication and information between a baby and his parents that raises the question of their meaning.

Very few longitudinal studies have been produced on preterm's crying. As the term approaches, the characteristics of preterm babies' crying are similar to those of term infants. But these studies date back more than 30 years and are obsolete in terms of the quality and performance of sound recording equipment and signal processing.

No study has looked at the genesis of the cry itself and the varieties of the cry of the preterm baby, depending on whether it was in a situation of hunger, pain, discomfort (bath).

Full description

This longitudinal study recordings of crying babies from 26 amenorrhea week to 33 amenorrhea week, 24 hours per week, each week until the return home. In the same time, parents will be asked to know the situation of the baby (hunger, pain, bath).

Enrollment: 20 patients

Sex: All

Ages: 1 to 10 days old

Volunteers: No Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion criteria

• Infant born between 26 and 33 amenorrhea week
• Live infant at birth
• Parent affiliated or entitled to a social security scheme
• Parent who received informed written information about the study

Exclusion criteria

• Intubated infant

Trial design

20 participants in 1 patient group

Preterm infant

Treatment:

Other: cries longitudinally registered