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Health-Related Quality-of-Life and Household Financial and Wellbeing Impacts of Prematurity and Necrotising Enterocolitis (NEC).

Recruitingn/aAges any - 30 WeeksAllImperial College London
NCT07192393 on ClinicalTrials.gov ↗
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In plain words

What the trial is, and whether it could suit you

PREM-IMPACT is a UK-based observational study exploring how caring for a very premature baby-particularly one affected by necrotising enterocolitis (NEC)-impacts families over the first year after hospital discharge. NEC is a serious bowel disease that can occur in premature babies, often requiring surgery and prolonged hospitalisation. This study runs alongside the WHEAT International Trial, which investigates whether pausing or continuing milk feeds during blood transfusions affects the risk of NEC in very preterm babies. PREM-IMPACT acts as a nested economic evaluation of the WHEAT Trial, helping to understand whether different feeding practices around transfusion offer good value for money from both the NHS and family perspective. PREM-IMPACT will collect detailed data on babies' health-related quality of life, as well as the financial, emotional, and social impact on parents and s

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📋 Eligibility rules (as published)
Inclusion Criteria: * Preterm birth \<30 gestational weeks Exclusion Criteria: * Parent(s) of a preterm baby who died of necrotising enterocolitis (NEC) * Parent(s) unwilling or unable to provide written informed consent * Parent(s) and sibling(s) unable to understand English.
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What it tests

  • Not listed
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Where

7 sites
Norfolk and Norwich University Hospital
Norwich, United Kingdom
University Hospital Coventry
Coventry, United Kingdom
Liverpool Women's Hospital
Liverpool, United Kingdom
Chelsea & Westminster Hospital
London, United Kingdom
Imperial College Healthcare NHS Trust (St Mary's Hospital, Paddington)
London, United Kingdom
John Radcliffe Hospital
Oxford, United Kingdom
Queen Alexandra Hospital
Portsmouth, United Kingdom
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