Stimulation of reaching behavior using sticky mittens in preterm infants
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Recruiting
- Conditions
- PrematurityM01.060.703.520.520
- Registration Number
- RBR-386vfr
- Lead Sponsor
- niversidade Federal de Mato Grosso do Sul (UFMS)
- Brief Summary
Not available
- Detailed Description
Not available
Recruitment & Eligibility
- Status
- Recruiting
- Sex
- Not specified
- Target Recruitment
- Not specified
Inclusion Criteria
Infants born with less than 37 weeks of gestational age; with first and fifth minute Apgar Scores greater than 7; without major pre- and perinatal complications; at maternal care.
Exclusion Criteria
High-risk infants; with clinical signs/diagnosis of neurological impairment, congenital malformations, genetic syndromes, visual and auditory alterations, cardiorespiratory difficulties or musculoskeletal impairment; who do not collaborate during pre-training and post-training measures.
Study & Design
- Study Type
- Intervention
- Study Design
- Not specified
- Primary Outcome Measures
Name Time Method Reaching Performance: measured as the frequencies of uni/bimanual movements and hand opening when the infant touches the object, as well as the mean values of kinematics variables of reaching movement (velocity, acceleration) The improvement in the reaching performance will be considered as the following:<br><br>Increase in the values of the frequencies of unimanual and/or bimanual reaches between pre-training and post-training;<br>Increase in the values of the frequencies of open and/or semi-open hand between pre-training and post-training;<br>Increase in the mean values of velocity and acceleration between pre-training and post-training.
- Secondary Outcome Measures
Name Time Method Object Grasping Success: measured by the frequency of reaches with object grasping. The gain in the success of grasping will be considered as the increase in the values of the frequencies of grasps between pre-training and post-training.