Listening to Mom in the NICU: Neural, Clinical and Language Outcomes

NCT ID: NCT02847689

Last Updated: 2021-11-04

Study Results

Results pending

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Basic Information

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Recruitment Status

COMPLETED

Clinical Phase

NA

Total Enrollment

46 participants

Study Classification

INTERVENTIONAL

Study Start Date

2016-07-31

Study Completion Date

2021-10-01

Brief Summary

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The purpose of this study is to examine whether playing recordings of a mother's voice to her infant while in the hospital nursery is an effective treatment for promoting healthy brain and language development in infants born preterm.

Detailed Description

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Children born preterm are at-risk for developmental language delays. Language problems in preterm children are thought to be related to neurobiological factors, including injuries to white matter structures of the brain and environmental factors, including decreased exposure to maternal speech in the hospital nursery. There is evidence to suggest that maternal speech input may be important for promoting healthy brain and language development.

Participants will be randomly assigned to one of two study groups. Each infant has a 50% chance of being assigned to the group that will listen to a recording of his/her mother's voice and a 50% chance of being assigned to the group that will not be played a voice recording. Mother's of participating infants will have her voice recorded as she reads a common children's storybook. Recordings will be played to infants each day until s/he is discharged from the hospital. Participation in this study requires that all infants receive up to an additional 10 minutes of brain scans as part of his/her routine clinical magnetic resonance imaging (MRI).

Conditions

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Premature Birth

Keywords

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Premature Birth Obstetric Labor, Premature Obstetric Labor Complications Pregnancy Complications

Study Design

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Allocation Method

RANDOMIZED

Intervention Model

PARALLEL

Primary Study Purpose

TREATMENT

Blinding Strategy

TRIPLE

Participants Caregivers Outcome Assessors

Study Groups

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Language Treatment Arm

An infant participant randomized to the language treatment arm will be played recordings of his/her mother's voice 2-3 hours daily in the intermediate care nursery until discharge.

Group Type EXPERIMENTAL

Language Treatment

Intervention Type BEHAVIORAL

Recording of a mother's voice reading a children's storybook.

Control Treatment Arm

An infant participant randomized to the control treatment arm will receive standard of care. Standard of care does not include being played recordings of his/her mother's voice while admitted to the intermediate care nursery. However, an infant randomized to the control treatment will have the same auditory equipment placed in his/her isolette or crib as an infant randomized to the Language Treatment Arm.

Group Type SHAM_COMPARATOR

Control Treatment

Intervention Type BEHAVIORAL

Standard of Care

Interventions

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Language Treatment

Recording of a mother's voice reading a children's storybook.

Intervention Type BEHAVIORAL

Control Treatment

Standard of Care

Intervention Type BEHAVIORAL

Other Intervention Names

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Standard of Care

Eligibility Criteria

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Inclusion Criteria

* Infants born preterm at Stanford Children's Hospital between 27 0/7 - 31 6/7 weeks gestational age

Exclusion Criteria

* Congenital anomalies
* Recognizable malformation syndromes
* Active seizure disorders
* History of Central Nervous System infections
* Hydrocephalus
* Major sensori-neural hearing loss
* Likelihood to be transferred from NICU to alternate care facility or home environment prior to 36 weeks PMA
* Intraventricular Hemorrhage Grades III-IV
* Cystic periventricular leukomalacia (PVL)
* Surgical treatment for necrotizing enterocolitis
* Small for gestational age (SGA) \<3 percentile and/or Intra-uterine growth restriction (IUGR) no head sparing
* Twin-to-twin transfusions
Minimum Eligible Age

24 Weeks

Maximum Eligible Age

31 Weeks

Eligible Sex

ALL

Accepts Healthy Volunteers

No

Sponsors

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Eunice Kennedy Shriver National Institute of Child Health and Human Development (NICHD)

NIH

Sponsor Role collaborator

Stanford University

OTHER

Sponsor Role lead

Responsible Party

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Katherine E Travis, PhD

Instructor

Responsibility Role PRINCIPAL_INVESTIGATOR

Principal Investigators

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Katherine E Travis, PhD

Role: PRINCIPAL_INVESTIGATOR

Stanford University

Locations

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Stanford University - Lucile Packard Children's Hospital

Palo Alto, California, United States

Site Status

Countries

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United States

Provided Documents

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Document Type: Informed Consent Form

View Document

Other Identifiers

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1K99HD084749-01A1

Identifier Type: NIH

Identifier Source: secondary_id

View Link

32638

Identifier Type: -

Identifier Source: org_study_id