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GentleTouch (Study to Evaluate Somatosensory Evoked Potential (SSEP) Responses to Affective Touch and How it Develops in Healthy Term Babies)

NCT03731195

CompletedN/A

Sponsor: University College Cork

Conditions: Pleasant Touch, Cortical Response

Countries: Ireland, United Kingdom

This study will attempt to measure the direct effect of pleasant skin touch on the developing infant brain. The massage intervention stimulates a specific class of unmyelinated C-fibres in the skin called C-touch (CT) afferents, and effects will be assessed by monitoring brain responses (GentleTouch Project) in a prospective cohort study.

Eligibility overview

Sex: ALL

Age: 37 Weeks to —

Healthy volunteers: Yes

Study type: OBSERVATIONAL

Eligibility criteria

Inclusion Criteria:

* Infants born \> 37 weeks gestation
* Single births
* Not requiring admission to the Neonatal Unit
* Healthy infants without suspected congenital or metabolic anomalies
* Written Informed Consent

Exclusion Criteria:

* Infants born \< 37 weeks gestation
* Multiple births
* Severe metabolic or genetic anomaly that would require ongoing specialist care in the infancy period.
* Admission to the Neonatal Unit.
* No written Informed Consent obtained

Locations (2)

Wilton, Cork, Ireland
London, United Kingdom