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NCT Number: NCT05410639

Effect of Online Education Given to Parent on Motor Social Development for The Premature Babies in The Neonatal Intensive Care Unites

Our study aim to evaluate the effect of online program that provides education to parents of premature infants in which stayed in the neonatal intensive care units (NICU),in their motor,socail-communişcation development and the parents stress level.

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Key information

Conditions

Premature Infant Female Urogenital Diseases and Pregnancy Complications Obstetric Labor Complications Obstetric Labor, Premature Pregnancy Complications Premature Birth Urogenital Diseases

Age range

0 month–8 month

Sex eligibility

All sexes

Study type

Interventional

Phase

Not applicable

Primary location

Marmara University

Istanbul, 34854, Turkey (Türkiye)

About this study

Our study aim to increase the level f knowledge of the parents of premature infants that stayed in the NICU,to better manage their stress and to provide them with informations to support the motor and social-communication development of their infants.

Who can participate

Healthy volunteers accepted: Yes

Only the study team can determine whether someone qualifies for participation.

Inclusion criteria

  • infants Stayed in the neonatal intensive care unit for some time after premature birth for the purpose of care and treatment.
  • Being a premature baby born at or under 32 weeks
  • infant corrected age between 0-8 months
  • To agree to participate in the study.

Exclusion criteria

  • Having a concomitant major anomaly and genetic disease
  • The fact that the family did not accept the evaluation of their baby in motor and social-communication area at sixth month of the study.

Treatment and study plan

online education program

Other

The training we provided was to give exercises and advice to parents according to the age of the baby in order to stimulate the motor and social development of the baby,and then, an improvement in the stress state of the parents by their participation in the care of their baby.The training, which began with the discharge of the baby from the hospital, was in the form of slide presentations and videos.

no online education program

Other

Parents and their infants in the control group did not receive any online education program

Primary outcomes

  1. Alberta Infant Motor Scale (AIMS)

    Time frame: Premature infant motor development was assessed one time by AIMS at their 6 month corrected age

    AIMS assesses the gross infant motor skills in supine, prone, sitting and standing positions with 58 items.the child is scored dec 0 to 58 points and evaluated with age-appropriate percentile curves:0-10 atypical development, 11-25 questionable performance, 26-75 normal performance, 76-90 very good performance, 91-100 are classified as excellent performance.

  2. The Social-Communication Area Screening Test of İnfant (SCASI)

    Time frame: Premature infant social-communication development was assessed one time by SCASI at their 6 month corrected age.

    SCASI assesses the social-communication infant skills,filled by the parents.it is an original and fast test for the early identification and evaluation of children at developmental risk in infancy and early childhood up to the age of 6-24 months.

Secondary outcomes

  1. Parenting Stress Index, Fourth Edition Short Form (PSI-4-SF)

    Time frame: Parents stress level was assessed one time by PSI-4-SF at their infant 6 month corrected age.

    PSI-4-SF assesses the parents stress level.PSI-4-SF contains 36 items: 12 items for Parental Stress (PS) , 12 items for Parent-Child dysfonctional Interaction (P-CDI), and 12 items for Difficult Child (DC).The normal range for scores is within the 16th to 84th percentiles.Scores in the 85th to 89th percentile are considered high,and scores in the 90th percentile or higher are considered clinically significant.

Sponsors and collaborators

Lead sponsor

Marmara University

Other

Registry information

Important dates

Study start
2021
Primary completion
2021
Study completion
2022
First posted
Jun 8, 2022
Registry last updated
Jun 8, 2022

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