Habituation response to external stimulus in preterm newborns

• Grant number: 11/18171-0
• Support Opportunities: Scholarships in Brazil - Scientific Initiation
• Start date: November 01, 2011
• End date: October 31, 2013
• Field of knowledge: Health Sciences - Medicine - Maternal and Child Health
• Principal Investigator: MARINA CARVALHO DE MORAES BARROS
• Grantee: Mariana Ulhôa de Castillo
• Host Institution: Escola Paulista de Medicina (EPM). Universidade Federal de São Paulo (UNIFESP). Campus São Paulo. São Paulo , SP, Brazil

Abstract

The student will perform the following activities: cases (newborns with gestation age lower than 32 weeks) and control selection (full-term newborn, healthy and the same sex from that of the case); procurement of the Enlightened Free Consent Term, in writing; maternal anamnesis to obtain demographic data, clinical, gestation and parturition informations; examination to the medical record to obtain newborn birth data, clinical evolution, during internment and release conditions; newborn neurobehavioral exam to evaluate the habituation response to tactile, sound and light stimulus; data entry; statistical analysis of data and writing of the manuscript for publication. (AU)

Scientific publications

(References retrieved automatically from Web of Science and SciELO through information on FAPESP grants and their corresponding numbers as mentioned in the publications by the authors)

CASTILLO, MARIANA ULHOA; DE MORAES BARROS, MARINA CARVALHO; GUINSBURG, RUTH. Habituation responses to external stimuli: is the habituation of preterm infants at a postconceptual age of 40 weeks equal to that of term infants?. ARCHIVES OF DISEASE IN CHILDHOOD-FETAL AND NEONATAL EDITION, v. 99, n. 5, p. F402-F407, SEP 2014. (11/18171-0)