Feeding and Transition to Home for Preterms at Social Risk

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Conditions studied: Premature Birth

In brief

Premature infants are at high risk of suboptimal health and development. This randomized clinical trial evaluated the impact of a developmentally based intervention, H-HOPE (Hospital-home transition: optimizing prematures' environment), for infants born between 29-34 weeks gestational age (GA) with at least two social-environmental risk factors. H-HOPE will improve infant behavior, mother care for the infants, mother-infant interaction and will reduce health care costs.

Key facts

Study ID

NCT02041923

Run by

University of Illinois at Chicago

People needed

198

Starts

2007-01-01

Expected to finish

2013-06-01

Last updated by the study team

2021-04-13

Who can join

Age: any, up to 45. Sex: any. Healthy volunteers: accepted.

You may qualify if…

• 29-34 weeks gestation at birth
• no other major health problems
• mothers have at least 2 socio-environmental risk factors such as African American or Latina
• Less then high school education
• history of mental illness
• less than 150% poverty level
• 2 children less than 24 months old
• 4 or more children living in the home
• living in a disadvantaged neighborhood

You may not qualify if…

• Infant has congenital anomaly
• Necrotizing enterocolitis
• Brain injury
• chronic lung disease
• prenatal drug exposure
• mother is an illicit drug user
• mother is not the legal guardian

Where it is running

• Mercy Hospital and Medical Center — Chicago, Illinois, United States
• Mount Sinai Medical Center — Chicago, Illinois, United States

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