E-health-supported Diagnostic and Intervention in Preterm Born Children and Their Families

ConditionPreterm Birth
Trial statusRecruiting
Trial phaseNot applicable
Trial typeInterventional
Biological sexAll
Age28-34
SponsorUniversity Hospital Tuebingen

About this trial

The app-based diagnostic and support approach with a focus on mental and somatic symptoms is intended to strengthen the resilience of premature born children and families and to identify risk and resilience factors.The overall objective of the study is to improve the post-inpatient care of families with premature born children. The procedure is evaluated by a two-arm design with an experimental group and a TAU group.

Eligibility criteria

Qualifiers

Premature babies born at the UKT,

Gestational age 28-34 weeks,

Mother: age ≥ 18 years,

agreement to participate in this study and signing of a consent form,

Disqualifiers

Premature babies < 28th or >34th week of pregnancy,

at least one of the children has serious diseases of the nervous system or obvious symptoms of a nervous disease,

at least one of the children has serious congenital diseases or suffers from malformations,

Mother: Lack of access to a smartphone/tablet,

Trial design

Treatments tested in this trial

  • Intervention Group (APP)
  • Treatment as usual-Group (TAU)

Treatment groups

120 Participants
are divided into 2 treatment groups

Sponsors and collaborators