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Basic Information
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COMPLETED
NA
32 participants
INTERVENTIONAL
2004-08-31
2008-04-30
Brief Summary
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Detailed Description
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Movement Training Group:
Parents/Caregivers will be instructed to improve their infants' awareness and ability to reach for toys with their arms and legs by performing two sets of 10 minutes of daily exercises with them. The first 10 minutes will focus on improving awareness of their arms and toys (such as bells on their wrists). The second 10 minutes of activity that focuses on introducing infants to a task-space they rarely experience at this age, the task-space required for midline reaching (such as moving the infant's arm to a midline toy). An experimenter will visit each family in their homes every other week (the week that is not a testing week) to assure correctness of training, encourage full participation and answer any questions.
Social Training Group:
To control for increased social interaction that accompanies the enhanced training, parents of infants in this group will serve as a control group. Parent/Caregivers will be asked to perform 2x a day of 10 minutes face-to-face social interaction with their infants. Parents and infants will receive a 10 minute audio tape of popular kids' songs. They will be instructed to place infants supine or in a bouncy seat and interact with the infant visually and verbally during this time period along with the music.
After the study is completed, each group will be offered the training booklet that the opposite group received.
Conditions
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Study Design
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RANDOMIZED
SINGLE_GROUP
PREVENTION
NONE
Study Groups
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True Control
This group is being enrolled as a true control group. This group will not participate in the movement training or social training however, they will be evaluated in the same way.
No interventions assigned to this group
Social Training
This group underwent specific social interactions two times each day with their parents.
Social Training
This group underwent special social interactions with their parents two times each day.
Movement Training
This group of preterm infants underwent movement training two times per day with their parents.
Movement Training
This group of infants underwent specific movement training activities two times per day with their parents.
Interventions
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Movement Training
This group of infants underwent specific movement training activities two times per day with their parents.
Social Training
This group underwent special social interactions with their parents two times each day.
Eligibility Criteria
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Inclusion Criteria
* Infants born weighing less than 2500 grams
Exclusion Criteria
* Fetal drug exposure
6 Weeks
11 Weeks
ALL
No
Sponsors
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University of Delaware
OTHER
Christiana Care Health Services
OTHER
Responsible Party
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Principal Investigators
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Jill C. Heathcock, MPT
Role: PRINCIPAL_INVESTIGATOR
University of Delaware
James C Galloway, Ph.D.
Role: PRINCIPAL_INVESTIGATOR
University of Delaware
Locations
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Christiana Care Health Systems
Newark, Delaware, United States
Countries
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References
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Fagen JW, Morrongiello BA, Rovee-Collier C, Gekoski MJ. Expectancies and memory retrieval in three-month-old infants. Child Dev. 1984 Jun;55(3):936-43.
Heathcock JC, Bhat AN, Lobo MA, Galloway JC. The relative kicking frequency of infants born full-term and preterm during learning and short-term and long-term memory periods of the mobile paradigm. Phys Ther. 2005 Jan;85(1):8-18.
Heathcock JC, Bhat AN, Lobo MA, Galloway JC. The performance of infants born preterm and full-term in the mobile paradigm: learning and memory. Phys Ther. 2004 Sep;84(9):808-21.
Cherkes-Julkowski M. Learning disability, attention-deficit disorder, and language impairment as outcomes of prematurity: a longitudinal descriptive study. J Learn Disabil. 1998 May-Jun;31(3):294-306. doi: 10.1177/002221949803100309.
de Vries AM, de Groot L. Transient dystonias revisited: a comparative study of preterm and term children at 2 1/2 years of age. Dev Med Child Neurol. 2002 Jun;44(6):415-21. doi: 10.1017/s0012162201002298.
Angulo-Kinzler RM, Ulrich B, Thelen E. Three-month-old infants can select specific leg motor solutions. Motor Control. 2002 Jan;6(1):52-68. doi: 10.1123/mcj.6.1.52.
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Other Identifiers
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24098
Identifier Type: -
Identifier Source: org_study_id
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