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Reading Stories to Premature Babies Reinforces Mother-baby Synchronies?

Reading Stories to Premature Babies Reinforces Mother-baby Synchronies?

Status
Completed
Phases
Unknown
Study type
Interventional
Source
ClinicalTrials.gov
Registry ID
NCT03114644
Acronym
SynchroPrema
Enrollment
27
Registered
2017-04-14
Start date
2017-01-16
Completion date
2023-12-29
Last updated
2026-06-11

For informational purposes only — not medical advice. Sourced from public registries and may not reflect the latest updates. Terms

Conditions

Mother-Baby Synchrony, Premature Infant

Brief summary

Observations of the early interactions between the infant and his parents highlighted the existence of rhythmic and reciprocal communications that serve as a basis for the mother-baby relationship and the emotional and cognitive development of the baby.

Detailed description

Observations of the early interactions between the infant and his parents highlighted the existence of rhythmic and reciprocal communications that serve as a basis for the mother-baby relationship and the emotional and cognitive development of the baby. In this study, the investigator proposes to focus on premature births (before 37 years) because prematurity disrupts the synchronization of these mother-baby communication. For several years, reading of stories and nursery rhymes has been used by the liaison child psychiatry team in the neonatal medicine and pediatric intensive care unit of the University Hospital of Amiens, as a therapeutic mediation tool allowing And support for parent-child interactions. Thus, it is desirable to explore the impact of reading stories and rhymes on mother-baby synchronies. The study is innovative because it simultaneously explores several fields: physiological, neuroendocrine, cognitive and psychic. A pilot study carried out in 2013 showed the feasibility of this exploration in the three protagonists of the interaction: mother, preterm baby and reader.

Interventions

OTHERPhysiologically evaluate the impact of reading history on the mother-baby synchronies in a context of premature birth requiring hospitalization in neonatal medicine.

Physiologically evaluate the impact of reading history on the mother-baby synchronies in a context of premature birth requiring hospitalization in neonatal medicine.

Sponsors

Centre Hospitalier Universitaire, Amiens
Lead SponsorOTHER

Study design

Allocation
NA
Intervention model
SINGLE_GROUP
Primary purpose
OTHER
Masking
NONE

Eligibility

Sex/Gender
ALL
Age
25 Weeks to 37 Weeks
Healthy volunteers
No

Inclusion criteria

* A premature birth between 27 and 37 SA * At the time of the transfers, the latter must be hospitalized in intensive care and extubated

Exclusion criteria

For the baby: * an unstable medical condition * Serious somatic complications * genetic or neurological diseases * a twin. For the mother: * an impossibility to understand and speak the French language * a mental or cognitive pathology * an addiction to alcohol or other psychoactive substances * persons under guardianship or curatorship or deprived of their liberty by a judicial or administrative decision

Design outcomes

Primary

MeasureTime frame
Analysis of cardio-respiratory synchronies and vagal tone2 weeks

Countries

France

Outcome results

None listed

Source: ClinicalTrials.gov · Data processed: Jun 12, 2026