Infant, PrematureNCT00179933
The Impact of Implementing NIDCAP on Preterm Infants in the NICU
A study testing Newborn Individualized Assessment Program in people with Infant, Premature, run by Ann & Robert H Lurie Children's Hospital of Chicago at 1 site in United States.
Trial summary
The purpose of this study is to evaluate the impact of the NIDCAP program of individualized patient consultation on the neurobehavioral organization of transported preterm infants in the NICU. Read more about this study
- Who is it for?
- Any age
- Conditions the study is for
- Infant, Premature
- What is being tested?
- Newborn Individualized Assessment Program
- Type of treatment
- Lifestyle or therapy programme
- How many people
- 40 participants
- Where
- 1 siteUnited States
- Study dates
- Sep 2005to Feb 2007
- Phase
- Interventional
- Are there results?
- None posted in the registry
Key requirements
Who can take part, as listed by the sponsor. Only the study team can confirm whether you are eligible, so take this list to your doctor.
- Ages Any age
- All sexes
- No healthy volunteers
- Child, Adult, Older adult
Who may be able to join
- preterm infants born at less than or equal to 32 weeks gestation, appropriate for gestational age in weight
Who cannot join
- congenital or chromosomal abnormality, history of maternal substance abuse
Trial locations and contacts
1 site in 1 country.
United States1 site
Neonatal Intensive Care Unit Children's Memorial Hospital
Chicago, Illinois, 60614
About this study
Official title: The Impact of Implementing the Newborn Individualized Developmental Care and Assessment Program on Neurobehavioral Organization of Preterm Infants in the NICU
The purpose of this study is to evaluate the impact of the NIDCAP program of individualized patient consultation on the neurobehavioral organization of transported preterm infants in the NICU. Behavioral response to routine caregiving will be compared between infants in the pre-NIDCAP group to infants in the post-NIDCAP group. And it is this behavioral response that will be used to evaluate the effectiveness of the NIDCAP program.
Read the detailed description
Therapies that have brought about sharp decreases in neonatal mortality have not brought about similar decreases in neurodevelopmental morbidity for preterm infants. Developmentally supportive care is NICU care that seeks to optimize the developmental course and outcomes for preterm infants. While other staff training programs for developmentally supportive care exist, it is the Newborn Developmental Care and Assessment Program (NIDCAP) that has been the methodology used in randomly controlled trials that demonstrate positive medical and neurobehavioral outcomes for preterm infants receiving developmentally supportive care. NICUs that care for all out-born or transported infants face unique challenges in balancing developmentally supportive nursing care with the high-technological medical needs of the most critically ill and extremely premature infants. Yet it is these most fragile infants who can most benefit from the positive impact the NIDCAP program can offer. Yet, there are no published studies documenting the impact of the NIDCAP program on neurobehavioral outcomes of these transported preterm infants exclusively.
Objectives: The objective of this project is to study the impact of implementing the NIDCAP program of individualized patient consultation on the neurobehavioral organization of transported preterm infants in the NICU of a major pediatric medical center.
Research Methods: A random sample of approximately 40 preterm infants will be recruited to participate in this descriptive study. In this phase-lag design, 20 infants will participate in the pre-NIDCAP intervention phase and 20 infants will participate in the post-NIDCAP intervention phase. Each infant within each phase will be videotaped during 2 routine nurse-caregiving sessions. The first session will occur within 72 hours of admission to the NICU at Children's Memorial Hospital (CMH). The second session will occur when the infant is 34-36 weeks corrected gestational age. The videotapes will be collected so that observations of the infant's physical environment and caregiving and an assessment of the infant's behavioral function can be scored randomly at the end of the study by an outside consultant without bias as to what phase the infant participated. In addition, demographic data will be collected on the sample infants. Data will be subjected to descriptive statistics, inferential statistics and correlational procedures.
- Conditions
- Infant, Premature
- Being tested
- Newborn Individualized Assessment Program
- Keywords
- developmental care, Neonatal Intensive Care Unit
- Medical subject headings
- Premature Birth
What participants receive
What participants receive. In a randomised study each person is assigned to one group by chance.
Newborn Individualized Assessment ProgramBehavioural
What is being measured
The primary outcome is the main question the study is designed to answer.
Behavioral function score within 72 hours of admission and Behavioral function score at 34-36 weeks gestation.
Secondary outcomes (2)
Environment and caregiving score within 72 hours of admit
Environment and caregiving score at 34-36 weeks gestation
Timeline
From the start of the study to its completion; the mark is today. Estimated dates are the sponsor’s plan.
- First posted16 Sep 2005 (estimated)
- Study startSep 2005
- Study completionFeb 2007
Why it stopped: Unable to fulfill intention of study, lost investigators.
Resources
- Official record on ClinicalTrials.govThe registry entry this page is built from, with its full change history.
- Other trials for Infant, PrematureStudies of the same condition, open and under way.
- What the trial phases meanHow a treatment moves from first tests in people to approval.
More details
For doctors and researchers: how the study is designed, who runs it, and its registry IDs.
Study design
- Study type
- Interventional
- Phase
- Phase N/A
- Primary purpose
- Treatment
- Allocation
- Non-randomised
- Intervention model
- Crossover
- Masking
- None (open label)
- Enrolment
- 40 participants
Sponsor and investigators
- Lead sponsor
- Ann & Robert H Lurie Children's Hospital of Chicago
- Sponsor type
- University, hospital or other
- Responsible party
- Principal investigator, Barbara Fleming, Ann & Robert H Lurie Children's Hospital of Chicago
- Investigators
- Barbara A Fleming, RNC, MS, Principal investigator, Ann & Robert H Lurie Children's Hospital of Chicago
IDs, dates and publications
- ClinicalTrials.gov ID
- NCT00179933
- Sponsor's protocol ID
- 2005-12574
- Other IDs
- 2005
- Status last verified
- Nov 2024
- First submitted
- 14 Sep 2005
- Last updated
- 21 Nov 2024
- Results posted
- No
- Data monitoring committee
- No
Study at a glance
From the registry record, last updated by the sponsor on 21 Nov 2024. Recruitment status is as the sponsor reported it: confirm with the study team.
- Official title
- The Impact of Implementing the Newborn Individualized Developmental Care and Assessment Program on Neurobehavioral Organization of Preterm Infants in the NICU
- ClinicalTrials.gov ID
- NCT00179933
- Acronym / sponsor ID
- 2005-12574
- Conditions
- Infant, Premature
- Keywords
- developmental care, Neonatal Intensive Care Unit
- Study type
- Interventional
- Recruitment status
- TerminatedReason stopped: Unable to fulfill intention of study, lost investigators.
- Enrolment
- 40 participants
- Lead sponsor
- Ann & Robert H Lurie Children's Hospital of ChicagoUniversity, hospital or other
- Study start
- Sep 2005
- Study completion
- Feb 2007 (actual)
- First posted
- 16 Sep 2005 (estimated)
- Results
- Not posted in the source record
Clinical summary
The research question as the sponsor registered it. This describes what the study plans to test, not what it found.
The purpose of this study is to evaluate the impact of the NIDCAP program of individualized patient consultation on the neurobehavioral organization of transported preterm infants in the NICU. Behavioral response to routine caregiving will be compared between infants in the pre-NIDCAP group to infants in the post-NIDCAP group. And it is this behavioral response that will be used to evaluate the effectiveness of the NIDCAP program.
Detailed description
Therapies that have brought about sharp decreases in neonatal mortality have not brought about similar decreases in neurodevelopmental morbidity for preterm infants. Developmentally supportive care is NICU care that seeks to optimize the developmental course and outcomes for preterm infants. While other staff training programs for developmentally supportive care exist, it is the Newborn Developmental Care and Assessment Program (NIDCAP) that has been the methodology used in randomly controlled trials that demonstrate positive medical and neurobehavioral outcomes for preterm infants receiving developmentally supportive care. NICUs that care for all out-born or transported infants face unique challenges in balancing developmentally supportive nursing care with the high-technological medical needs of the most critically ill and extremely premature infants. Yet it is these most fragile infants who can most benefit from the positive impact the NIDCAP program can offer. Yet, there are no published studies documenting the impact of the NIDCAP program on neurobehavioral outcomes of these transported preterm infants exclusively.
Objectives: The objective of this project is to study the impact of implementing the NIDCAP program of individualized patient consultation on the neurobehavioral organization of transported preterm infants in the NICU of a major pediatric medical center.
Research Methods: A random sample of approximately 40 preterm infants will be recruited to participate in this descriptive study. In this phase-lag design, 20 infants will participate in the pre-NIDCAP intervention phase and 20 infants will participate in the post-NIDCAP intervention phase. Each infant within each phase will be videotaped during 2 routine nurse-caregiving sessions. The first session will occur within 72 hours of admission to the NICU at Children's Memorial Hospital (CMH). The second session will occur when the infant is 34-36 weeks corrected gestational age. The videotapes will be collected so that observations of the infant's physical environment and caregiving and an assessment of the infant's behavioral function can be scored randomly at the end of the study by an outside consultant without bias as to what phase the infant participated. In addition, demographic data will be collected on the sample infants. Data will be subjected to descriptive statistics, inferential statistics and correlational procedures.
Study design
- Primary purpose
- Treatment
- Allocation
- Non-randomised
- Intervention model
- Crossover
- Masking
- None (open label)
Who may qualify
- Sex
- All
- Healthy volunteers
- Not accepted
- Age groups
- Child, Adult, Older adult
Key inclusion criteria (1 listed)
- preterm infants born at less than or equal to 32 weeks gestation, appropriate for gestational age in weight
Key exclusion criteria (1 listed)
- congenital or chromosomal abnormality, history of maternal substance abuse
Eligibility is decided by the study team after screening; this overview does not establish that a patient qualifies. Full inclusion and exclusion criteria.
Interventions
| Intervention | Type | Arms |
|---|---|---|
| Newborn Individualized Assessment Program | Behavioural | – |
Primary outcome
Behavioral function score within 72 hours of admission and Behavioral function score at 34-36 weeks gestation.
2 secondary outcomes
Environment and caregiving score within 72 hours of admit
Environment and caregiving score at 34-36 weeks gestation
Results and safety
The study was stopped early (reason given: Unable to fulfill intention of study, lost investigators.). Results are not available in the source record.
Research links
- Official record on ClinicalTrials.govLast updated by the sponsor 21 Nov 2024.
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Referral and contact
AzTrials does not enrol participants or take referrals. Contact the study team or a site listed below; they decide who can take part. This study is not recruiting at the moment.
Barbara A Fleming, RNC, MS principal investigator
Ann & Robert H Lurie Children's Hospital of Chicago
1 site in 1 country: see every site and its status.
Questions about this trial
What is this clinical trial studying?
A study testing Newborn Individualized Assessment Program in people with Infant, Premature, run by Ann & Robert H Lurie Children's Hospital of Chicago at 1 site in United States.
The full registered description is in the About this study section and the official record.
Who may be eligible to take part?
The sponsor lists 1 inclusion and 1 exclusion criteria. Eligibility is decided by the study team after screening, so read the full criteria and contact a listed site.
Is this clinical trial currently recruiting?
The record says: stopped early, as of the sponsor's last update on 21 Nov 2024. Status can change between updates, so confirm with the study contact before making plans.
Where is the study taking place?
The record lists 1 site in United States. Whether a site is taking part right now should be confirmed with that site. See every site.
What are the possible benefits and risks?
They depend on the study and the treatment, and no study can promise a benefit. The study team explains the known risks during informed consent, before anyone joins; the record itself does not list them.
Are results available for this study?
The study was stopped early (reason given: Unable to fulfill intention of study, lost investigators.). Results are not available in the source record.
How can a doctor refer a patient or contact the research team?
The record lists no contact. The official record names the sponsor, who can be asked directly. AzTrials does not enrol participants or take referrals.
What does the primary outcome measure?
Behavioral function score within 72 hours of admission and Behavioral function score at 34-36 weeks gestation.. It is what the study was designed to measure, not a finding.
Where can I read the original study information?
Does a listing mean the treatment is approved or proven to work?
No. A listing means the study is registered. It does not show that the treatment is safe, works, or is approved by a regulator.
How often is this information updated?
AzTrials copies changed records from ClinicalTrials.gov every night and reloads the whole registry every week. The sponsor last updated this record on 21 Nov 2024; AzTrials last refreshed its copy on 7 Nov 2026.