Dino Egg in Neonatal Intensive Care Unit

Premature Birth Clinical Trial

Official title:

Dino Egg Mother's Voice Exposure and Speech Sound Processing in Neonatal Intensive Care Unit Infants

Clinical Trial Details — Status: Withdrawn

Administrative data

• NCT number: NCT03447405
• Other study ID #: IRB18-00012
• Status: Withdrawn
• Phase: N/A
• Start date: July 1, 2019
• Est. completion date: January 1, 2024

Study information

• Verified date: February 2024
• Source: Nationwide Children's Hospital
• Contact: n/a
• Is FDA regulated: No
• Study type: Interventional

Clinical Trial Summary

Dino EGG mother's voice exposure and multisensory processing in Neonatal Intensive Care Unit infants.

This is a 2 phase prospective comparative effectiveness trial of our parents' voice intervention with 290 hospitalized preterm infants.

As a part of a previous project, an early technology development award from the Nationwide Children's Hospital (NCH) Technology Office allowed us to develop 10 functioning prototypes of the DINO EGG speakers, a NICU-safe and developmentally appropriate music player that delivers parent's voice to the bedside of NICU infants. The device passed NCH NICU-safe products committee and has been used in the clinical setting delivering clinical music therapy services (available at bedside to play parents' voice).

The first phase of the current study is to test an updated prototype version of the device that replicates a previously FDA (and NCH NICU-safe products) proved device called Pacifier Activated Lullaby (PAL), used and described in IRB15-01035, but being discontinued by the company. The discontinuation is not due to safety or health benefits concerns. Therefore, no device available on the market currently exists to accomplish NICU parents' voice delivery in a consistent and safe manner, the investigators modified a 510K-approved feeding device that is no longer available and whose intellectual property rights have expired. The device's air displacement sensor, which fits into a standard NICU pacifier, allowed the investigators to deliver processed and developmentally appropriate recordings of parent's voice, contingent upon the infant producing effort to receive it. Intellectual property rights were filed for the modifications and use process through the technology transfer and legal office at NCH.

Therefore, phase I will test the usability of the device (safety for the NICU was confirmed), not the effectiveness of the parents' voice delivery for the infant. Parent and nursing questionnaires about the importance of the device availability and its usability will be collected from parents and Registered Nurse (RN) staff that choose to provide the feedback.

Recruitment information / eligibility

• Status: Withdrawn
• Enrollment: 0
• Est. completion date: January 1, 2024
• Est. primary completion date: January 1, 2024
• Accepts healthy volunteers: No
• Gender: All
• Age group: 32 Weeks to 34 Weeks

Eligibility

Inclusion Criteria:

• Inclusion criteria will be Post Menstrual Age (PMA) 32 0/7-34 6/7.

Exclusion Criteria:

• Ventilation using an endotracheal tube

• Major congenital malformations

• Family history of genetic hearing loss

• Use of sedatives or seizure medications

• Presence of severe neural injury on neuroimaging (intraventricular hemorrhage grade II or IV, periventricular leukomalacia, cerebellar hemorrhage, ischemic or thrombotic injury)

• Presence of systemic inflammatory conditions (history of necrotizing enterocolitis Bell's stage IIA or above or culture-documented sepsis or meningitis).

Related Conditions & MeSH terms

• Premature Birth

Intervention

Device:
• Dino Egg
DINO EGG speakers, a NICU-safe and developmentally appropriate music player that delivers parent's voice to the bedside of NICU infants. The device passed NCH NICU-safe products committee and has been used in the clinical setting delivering clinical music therapy services (available at bedside to play parents' voice).

Locations

Country	Name	City	State
United States	Nationwide Children's Hospital	Columbus	Ohio

Sponsors (1)

Lead Sponsor	Collaborator
Jonathan Slaughter

Country where clinical trial is conducted

United States, 

Outcome

Type	Measure	Description	Time frame	Safety issue
Primary	Usability of the device through questionaires	We will confirm a larger scale that for preterm infants, standardized exposure to mother's voice with a contingent stimulus of non-nutritive sucking can improve the development of speech sound discrimination in the NICU. Phase I will test the usability of the device (safety for the NICU was confirmed), not the effectiveness of the parents' voice delivery for the infant. Parent and nursing questionnaires about the importance of the device availability and its usability will be collected from parents and RN staff that choose to provide the feedback.	Through end of study completion, an average of 1 year