Interdisciplinary E-health Based Follow-up of Preterm Born Children

• At first, there will be focus groups with experts and affected families to finalize and optimize the study procedure. After that, 90 children will be recruited (ages 2, 5 and 10)
• T0: App-questions for the children at the ages of 5 and 10 and the parents of all children to mental, somatic and sleep problems of the children and well-being of the parents, sleep tracking and recording of a sleep sequence of the children; differentiated examinations and questionnaires to mental and somatic problems of the children by interdisciplinary study team
• Interdisciplinary study team meeting to generate recommendations for the families
• Interdisciplinary study team recommendations for the families
• T1: Comparable to T0 but only measurements that were assessed with questionnaires/at home plus post-experimental questionnaire
• Focus groups with participating families and the study team experts for evaluation of the study procedure and intervention

Inclusion criteria

• female and male preterm born children (<32 week of pregnancy) that are treated at the clinic in Tübingen and their parents
• Existence of systematical neonatal data and consent of the care person to use this data
• Existence of the data of the 2 year regular follow-up (for the 5 and 10 year olds)

Exclusion criteria

• lack of access to a mobile phone/tablet including internet access
• insufficient knowledge of the German language of both parents