# Skin-to-skin Contact in Neonatal Intensive Care Unit (NICU), Caregiving Touch and Neural Correlates of Slow Stroking Touch in Preterm Infants

> **NCT04293939** · — · UNKNOWN · sponsor: **IRCCS Eugenio Medea** · enrollment: 50 (estimated)

## Conditions studied

- Preterm Birth
- Parent-Child Relations

## Interventions

- **DIAGNOSTIC_TEST:** Functional Magnetic Risonance Imaging (fMRI) acquisition

## Key facts

- **NCT ID:** NCT04293939
- **Lead sponsor:** IRCCS Eugenio Medea
- **Sponsor class:** OTHER
- **Phase:** —
- **Study type:** OBSERVATIONAL
- **Status:** UNKNOWN
- **Start date:** 2019-12-02
- **Primary completion:** 2024-04-04
- **Final completion:** 2024-09-04
- **Target enrollment:** 50 (ESTIMATED)
- **Last updated:** 2023-10-18


## Primary source

ClinicalTrials.gov registry: https://clinicaltrials.gov/study/NCT04293939

## Citation

> US National Library of Medicine, ClinicalTrials.gov registration NCT04293939, "Skin-to-skin Contact in Neonatal Intensive Care Unit (NICU), Caregiving Touch and Neural Correlates of Slow Stroking Touch in Preterm Infants". Retrieved via AI Analytics 2026-09-27 from https://api.ai-analytics.org/clinical/NCT04293939. Licensed CC0.

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