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Administrative data

NCT number NCT02836119
Other study ID # 2016-00730
Secondary ID
Status Recruiting
Phase
First received
Last updated
Start date July 2016
Est. completion date December 2020

Study information

Verified date June 2018
Source University of Zurich
Contact Sarah F. Schoch, M.Sc.
Phone 044 255 93 68
Email babysleep@usz.ch
Is FDA regulated No
Health authority
Study type Observational

Clinical Trial Summary

The overarching study aim is to evaluate the development of sleep behavior and gut microbiota (GMB), and their potential interaction, during the vulnerable period of the first year of life. Age-specific fecal profiles with bacterial genome sequencing will provide new insight into the functional coevolution of the GMB and host sleep behavior.


Recruitment information / eligibility

Status Recruiting
Enrollment 128
Est. completion date December 2020
Est. primary completion date December 2020
Accepts healthy volunteers Accepts Healthy Volunteers
Gender All
Age group 2 Months to 13 Months
Eligibility Inclusion Criteria:

- Good general health status

- exclusively breastfed (at baseline)

- vaginal birth delivery mode

Exclusion Criteria:

- C-section delivery mode

- Formula fed (at baseline)

- Diseases or lesions of the central nervous system, acute pediatric disease, developmental/neurologic/metabolic disorders, chronic medical conditions, or head injury

- Family history of narcolepsy/psychosis/bipolar disorder

- Conceptual age of < 37 or > 42 weeks

- Low birth weight (< 2500g)

- Co-sleeping during > 50% of the time in the same bed

- Medication use affecting sleep/alertness

- Vaccination (2 weeks prior to study)

- Antibiotics (3 months prior to study)

- Travelling across a time zone (within 1 month prior to study)

- intrauterine drug exposure, intrauterine infection, known or suspected drug or alcohol abuse

- Insufficient knowledge of German (parents)

Study Design


Related Conditions & MeSH terms

  • Gut Microbiota and Sleep in Infants

Locations

Country Name City State
Switzerland University Hospital Zurich Zurich

Sponsors (2)

Lead Sponsor Collaborator
University of Zurich University Children's Hospital, Zurich

Country where clinical trial is conducted

Switzerland, 

Outcome

Type Measure Description Time frame Safety issue
Primary Differences in sleep phenotypes (high fragmentation vs low fragmentation, short vs long sleepers) across the first twelve months of life
Primary Differences in Gut Microbiome Diversity (alpha, beta, Shannon) and taxa abundance and association with sleep phenotypes across the first twelve months of life
Secondary Association of primary outcome measures with cognitive and behavioral questionnaires (Food, development, Sleep) across the first twelve months of life