Movement-based Infant Intervention

NACompletedINTERVENTIONAL
Enrollment

12

Participants

Timeline

Start Date

September 1, 2017

Primary Completion Date

December 17, 2019

Study Completion Date

December 17, 2019

Conditions
Infant DevelopmentInfant,PrematureInfant, Very Low Birth WeightInfant, Small for Gestational AgeInfant Conditions
Interventions
BEHAVIORAL

Movement Intervention

At each visit, the caregiver will be reminded of the infant's movement rate from the last visit. The research team will help the caregiver to determine possible ways to achieve the goal of 1200 movements per hour of awake time. Strategies to increase leg movements will be encouraged based on the infant's developmental level and what they demonstrate a response to, including: shake a toy when infant moves legs, sing a line of a song when infant moves legs, change the position of the infant to encourage more leg movement, or lightly tickle the legs and feet of the infant. The intervention will be based upon the GAME (Goals - Activity - Motor Enrichment) protocol, a motor learning, environmental enrichment intervention that has recently been shown to be effective for improving motor skills in infants at high risk of cerebral palsy compared to standard care.

Trial Locations (1)

90089

Infant Neuromotor Control Laboratory, Los Angeles

All Listed Sponsors
lead

University of Southern California

OTHER

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