Impact of Hospital to Home: Optimizing Preterm Infant Environment for Surgical Neonates and Their Parents (H-HOPE)
Impact of the Hospital to Home: Optimizing Preterm Infant Environment (H-HOPE) Intervention on Infants With Congenital Defects Requiring Neonatal Surgery and Their Parents.
Ann & Robert H Lurie Children's Hospital of Chicago
40 participants
Jul 31, 2025
INTERVENTIONAL
Conditions
Summary
Infants born with congenital defects may require major surgery in the neonatal period. These infants are at risk for neurodevelopmental impairments. Additionally, their parents are at higher risk for adverse mental health outcomes. Early relationships are essential to healthy growth and development in all children. Relationships between parents and infants born with a congenital defect are negatively impacted by separation due to hospitalization; parental and infant stress exposures; and alterations in infant behavior and parental mental health. Benefits of H-HOPE intervention on infant neurodevelopment outcomes have been observed in healthy and at-risk term and preterm infant populations but never evaluated in infants with congenital defects. The purpose of this study is to examine impact of the Hospital to Home: Optimizing Preterm Infant Environment (H-HOPE) intervention versus standard ICU care for infants born with a congenital defect requiring neonatal surgery, and their parents. The main questions to be answered include: 1. Does H-HOPE improve pre-feeding state and behavior, oral feeding progression, and growth in infants born with a congenital defect requiring neonatal surgery? 2. Does H-HOPE neurodevelopmental outcomes in infants born with a congenital defect requiring neonatal surgery? 3. Does H-HOPE improve parental mental health outcomes among parents of infants born with a congenital defect requiring neonatal surgery? 4. Does H-HOPE improve parent-infant interactions among infants born with a congenital defect requiring neonatal surgery and their parents? 5. Does H-HOPE improve neuroendocrine function among infants born with a congenital defect requiring neonatal surgery and their parents? 6. Do parents of infants born with congenital defects requiring surgery experience participating in the H-HOPE intervention positively? Results of this study may provide preliminary evidence supporting use of H-HOPE to positively impact short- and long-term outcomes for these infants and their parents.
Eligibility
Inclusion Criteria2
- Infants and one or both of their parents, born with a congenital defect and requiring major surgery during the neonatal period, including congenital heart disease.
- At the time of H-HOPE initiation, infants must be \<48 weeks post-menstrual age (PMA), clinically stable (no vital sign instability during routine nursing care) on respiratory support \< a nasal cannula at 2 liters per minute, and off all intravenous (IV) pain medications.
Exclusion Criteria6
- Infants born at \<34 weeks gestation,
- Infants born with congenital defects involving the nervous system (i.e., spina bifida, congenital hydrocephalus),
- Infants with genetic syndromes,
- Infants with a history of Extracorporeal Membrane Oxygenation,
- Infants with a history of mechanical ventilation lasting 30 or more days, or
- Infants that are wards of the state.
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Interventions
The H-HOPE (Hospital to Home: Optimizing Preterm Infant Environment) intervention is a multisensory behavioral intervention. H-HOPE has two components: Parents+ and Massage+ (see Training Manual in Documents). Parents+: Trained study team members will provide Parents+ training using participatory guidance and experiential learning approaches. During the Parents+ sessions, parents learn infant behavioral cues, and how to read, interpret, and respond to their infant's cues during Massage+. They also learn the Massage+ intervention. Massage+ is a 15-minute, multisensory, behavioral intervention that will be taught to parents during Parents+ sessions and implemented by parents with infants in the experimental group. It includes talking to the baby (30 seconds), massaging the baby (10 minutes; may be adapted to avoid wounds or as tolerated by baby), visual and vestibular stimuli (rocking and showing face for 5 minutes). Trained staff may provide Massage+ when parents are not available.
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NCT07372898