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HEP Tele-Rehabilitation for Preterm Infants at Developmental Risk: A Feasibility Study
Sponsor: Medipol University
Summary
Several early intervention approaches based on sensory and motor environmental enrichment have demonstrated neurobehavioral benefits and improvements in motor and cognitive skills in infants. Tele-rehabilitation has also been shown to positively impact the motor and cognitive development of at-risk infants. However, limited research has examined the effects of environmental enrichment-based early interventions delivered via tele-rehabilitation on sensory, motor, cognitive, language, and socio-emotional skills, adaptive behaviors, parental goals, and parental anxiety in preterm infants at developmental risk, as well as the feasibility of delivering such interventions online. The proposed study aims to evaluate the effects of the environmental enrichment-based HEP® approach delivered through tele-rehabilitation on these developmental outcomes in preterm infants, thereby contributing to the existing literature.
Official title: Feasibility Study of HEP® (Homeostasis-Enrichment-Plasticity) Tele-Rehabilitation for Preterm Infants at Developmental Risk
Key Details
Gender
All
Age Range
4 Months - 12 Months
Study Type
INTERVENTIONAL
Enrollment
16
Start Date
2024-10-01
Completion Date
2025-04-01
Last Updated
2026-07-27
Healthy Volunteers
No
Conditions
Interventions
Intervention
The HEP® (Homeostasis-Environmental Enrichment-Plasticity) Approach is a child-centered, family-based early intervention program grounded in the principles of homeostasis, environmental enrichment, and neuroplasticity. This approach is based on by ecological and developmental theories, including Ecological Theory, Dynamic Systems Theory, Perception-Action Theory, Neuronal Group Selection Theory, and the Person-Environment-Occupation Model.
Locations (1)
Sense On , Istanbul, Beykoz 34810
Istanbul, Beykoz, Turkey (Türkiye)