The Baby Book Project.Can nursery rhyme reading by mothers, during the hospital stay, support neurodevelopment and maternal-infant interaction in premature infants?

Harry Crossley foundation0 个研究点目标入组 320 人开始时间: 2021年10月5日最近更新: 2023年5月29日

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•Premature infants born at or before 32 weeks gestational age (but at least 26weeks) with birth weight 1250 grams or less, but more than 750g.
•Infants have to be inborn at Tygerberg Hospital or admitted within the first two weeks of life
•Infants have to be clinically stable as deemed by attending consultant.
•Maternal native language has to be English, Afrikaans or isiXhosa.
•Mother has to be literate.
•Permanent address in the Western Cape area.

•Infants less than 750g and less than 26 weeks
•Prenatally diagnosed brain lesions.
•Evidence of perinatal asphyxia and neonatal asphyxia.
•Known alcohol or methamphetamine abuse in pregnancy.
•Maternal Illiteracy.
•SGA: weight less than the tenth percentile on Fenton growth chart.
•Grade 3 and 4- intraventricular haemorrhage IVH (Papille classification)
•Cystic periventricular leucomalacia (PVL): Grade 4
•Dilated lateral ventricular atria above 95th percentile.
•Microcephaly: Head circumference less than the third percentile at birth (or more than two standard deviations below the mean on follow-up).
•Significant congenital abnormalities, e.g. cardiac lesions that need surgical correction.
•Surgical necrotising enterocolitis
•Abnormal auditory brainstem response at discharge or follow-up.
•Not able to speak English, Afrikaans or isiXhosa.
•When more than three episodes of otitis media and middle ear fluid documented before 6-8 months post-term, the infant will be excluded.

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Harry Crossley foundation