Listening to Mom 2: Neural, Clinical and Language Outcomes

Not Recruiting

Trial ID: NCT04193579

Age - 24 Weeks-31 Weeks Gender - All Accepting Healthy Volunteers - No

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 24 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 and/or brain MRI scan

   - 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

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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
650-498-2576

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