Telerehabilitation for Preterm Infants

Hacettepe University

Status: Completed

Conditions: Telerehabilitation; Infant, Premature; Early Intervention

Treatments: Other: Early intervention with telerehabilitation

Study type: Interventional

Funder types: Other

Identifiers

NCT07068386

2021/219

Details and patient eligibility

About

The aim of this study is to investigate the feasibility and short-term effectiveness of early intervention delivered via telerehabilitation on the gross motor development of preterm infants.

The motor development of preterm infants will be assessed through video recordings. Based on these assessments and in collaboration with the parents, an intervention program will be developed. The parents will implement this intervention with their infants over a three-month period. Following this, motor development will be reassessed via video recordings.

Enrollment: 127 patients

Sex: All

Ages: 3 months to 1 year old

Volunteers: No Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion criteria

• Between November 2021 and May 2024, all preterm infants with a corrected age of 3 to 5 months who were referred to the our Department were invited to participate in the study.

Exclusion criteria

• Infants with genetic abnormalities, hospitalized infants, those with blindness or deafness, infants requiring respiratory support, and physiologically unstable infants were excluded from the study.
• Additionally, infants whose parents did not have the required technological equipment for telerehabilitation (mobile phone) or the skills to use it were not included in the study.
• Children with optimal MOS-R were excluded from the study

Trial design

Primary purpose: Health Services Research

Allocation: N/A

Interventional model: Single Group Assignment

Masking: None (Open label)

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127 participants in 1 patient group

Infant

Experimental group

Description:

The study was conducted using a single-arm design to investigate the feasibility and short-term effectiveness of early intervention delivered via telerehabilitation on the gross motor development of preterm infants. The intervention was individualized for each infant, based on principles of typical motor development, motor learning, and environmental enrichment

Treatment:

Other: Early intervention with telerehabilitation