Patterned Experience for Preterm Infants

Completed · Not applicable

Conditions studied: Complication of Prematurity

In brief

The PEPI study is designed to provide a patterned feeding experience. By using a regularly occurring and necessary caregiving event, feeding, as the vehicle for the patterned experience, the intervention should be effective at promoting and reinforcing neuronal growth and connections that are critical for neurobehavioral and cognitive function while at the same time being cost effective in its delivery.

Key facts

Study ID

NCT01577615

Run by

Children's Hospital Medical Center, Cincinnati

People needed

121

Starts

2012-02-01

Expected to finish

2015-09-01

Last updated by the study team

2015-11-13

Who can join

Age: any, up to 1. Sex: any. Healthy volunteers: not accepted.

You may qualify if…

• Infants born ≤ 32 weeks gestation

You may not qualify if…

• Infants will be excluded if the infant has gastrointestinal, craniofacial, cardiovascular, neuromuscular, and/or genetic defects

Where it is running

• University of Cincinnati Health Center — Cincinnati, Ohio, United States
• Cincinnati Children's Medical Center — Cincinnati, Ohio, United States

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