Study of Swaddling on Tactile Learning in Premature Infants (EMMASENS)

Grenoble Alpes University Hospital Center (CHU)

Status: Completed

Conditions: Premature Newborn

Treatments: Behavioral: no swaddling; Behavioral: swaddling

Study type: Observational

Funder types: Other

Identifiers

NCT04315428

38RC18.060

Details and patient eligibility

About

Explore the sensorially of the premature newborn that is fundamental to adapting the care environment to these hospitalized babies

Full description

Indeed, the challenge is to offer them an environment adapted to their sensory skills, so as not to alter their development.

This is in line with the customized care development, better known as the Anglo-Saxon term of Neonatal Individualised Developmental Care and Assessment Program.

The aim is thus to promote later the cognitive development of these children

Enrollment: 40 patients

Sex: All

Volunteers: No Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion criteria

• Children born prematurely and aged 28 to 35 Weeks of Amenorrhoea, regardless of their postnatal age

Exclusion criteria

premature newborns with

• associated anomalies syndrome
• abnormal cranial ultrasonography with stage III or IV intraventricular hemorrhage or periventricular cavitary leukaemia
• those receiving sedative or convulsive treatment during the experiment
• those whose grasping reflex is absent

Trial design

40 participants in 2 patient groups

premature swaddled

Description:

the childs in this group will be wrap in a lange (swaddled)

Treatment:

Behavioral: swaddling

premature no swaddled

Description:

the childs in this group will be not swaddled

Treatment:

Behavioral: no swaddling