The goal of this study is to determine the long-term outcomes associated with an economic intervention that was provided to encourage mother's of very premature infants to provide mother's own milk. This study will follow children after they are discharged from the Neonatal Intensive Care Unit, where their mothers received the economic intervention, out to age 2 years. This study will examine childhood outcomes at 2 years of age based on which group the mothers had been randomized into. This study will also determine the relationship between the total duration mother's own milk was received during the first year of life and early childhood outcomes at age 2 years in infants that were born very premature.
Study Type
OBSERVATIONAL
Enrollment
275
Rush University
Chicago, Illinois, United States
Cognition
Cognitive index scores on Bayley Scales of Infant and Toddler Development-4th Edition at 20 months CA.
Time frame: 2 years
Adiposity
Adiposity measured by BIA
Time frame: 2 years
MOM duration
Duration of partial and/or exclusive MOM feedings through the first year of life using questionnaire.
Time frame: 1 year
Total costs
Total costs at 20 months CA will be determined from the societal perspective and defined as the sum of ReDiMOM intervention, healthcare, EI and associated family costs from birth to 20 months CA. Detailed intervention costs for each infant are already collected for the original ReDiMOM RCT. Healthcare costs will be obtained from 5 sources: 1) ReDiMOM RCT prospective database, 2) self-report questionnaire to assess family healthcare costs, 3) Medicaid claims, 4) Illinois State Early Intervention Database, and 5) RUMC system-wide cost-account and billing systems
Time frame: 2 years
Language
Language index scores on Bayley Scales of Infant and Toddler Development-4th Edition at 20 months CA.
Time frame: 2 years
Motor
Motor index scores on Bayley Scales of Infant and Toddler Development-4th Edition at 20 months CA.
Time frame: 2 years
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