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Sensory Optimization of the Hospital Environment
Sponsor: University of Southern California
Summary
The long-term goal of this project is to improve the health and well-being of preterm infants and their parents. Although there is evidence to support positive multisensory interventions in the NICU, these interventions are often applied in an inconsistent manner, reducing their benefit. Through a rigorous and scientific process, we have developed a structured multisensory intervention program, titled Supporting and Enhancing NICU Sensory Experiences (SENSE), which includes specific doses and targeted timing of evidence-based interventions such as massage, auditory exposure, rocking, holding, and skin-to-skin care. The interventions are based on the infant's developmental stage and are adapted based on the infant's medical status and behavioral cues. The multisensory interventions are designed to be conducted during each day of NICU hospitalization by the parents, who are educated and supported to provide them. The proposed work aims to determine the effect of multisensory interventions on parent mental health, parent-child interaction, brain activity (amplitude integrated electroencephalography), and infant developmental outcomes through age 2 years, with specific attention to language outcome.
Official title: Multisensory Interventions to Improve Neurodevelopmental Outcomes of Preterm Infants Hospitalized in the Neonatal Intensive Care Unit
Key Details
Gender
All
Age Range
1 Day - 7 Days
Study Type
INTERVENTIONAL
Enrollment
215
Start Date
2023-05-29
Completion Date
2027-08-31
Last Updated
2024-08-07
Healthy Volunteers
No
Interventions
SENSE multisensory program
In order to support parent's ability to implement the daily SENSE program they will be provided with an educational manual reviewing the program, weekly meetings with a therapist, and logs to report their visitation schedule and activities. Parents are able to choose different types of each sensory exposure. All options address the same key principles for that behavior and only include those that have evidence to support their use and are appropriate at each PMA.
Monitored standard of care
Infants who receive sensory exposures only as standard of care but do not recieve the SENSE program
Locations (1)
Cardinal Glennon Children's Hospital
St Louis, Missouri, United States