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Listening to Mom in the NICU: Neural, Clinical and Language Outcomes
Not Recruiting
Trial ID: NCT02847689
Purpose
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.
Official Title
Listening to Mom in the Neonatal Intensive Care Unit (NICU): Neural, Clinical and Language Outcomes
Eligibility
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
Intervention(s):
behavioral: Language Treatment
behavioral: Control Treatment
Not Recruiting
Contact Information
Stanford University
School of Medicine
300 Pasteur Drive
Stanford,
CA
94305
Katherine E Travis, PhD
650-498-7690