Infant Development Study
Pediatricians Study the Effects of the Roseola Virus
What to Expect
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Visual Memory - Facial Recognition and Memory Testing using rewards - Hide and Seek Game using crackers |
If your baby qualifies to take part in this study, you will be contacted by your infant’s doctor. The doctor will also let parents know that we will be contacting them to talk about the study and whether they are interested in being part of it.
Once you join the study, we will ask you to meet with our staff 4 times when your baby is between 4 months and 3 years of age.
At a time when it is convenient for you, we will schedule you to bring your baby to our child development study rooms located at Strong Memorial Hospital.
We will also ask you to help us collect some of your baby’s saliva and urine. Urine is collected simply attaching an easily removable plastic urine bag to your baby’s diaper area. The reason we collect the urine is to screen for CMV. Any baby detected with CMV at this age will be excluded from the study.
We also test 2 or 3 samples of your baby’s blood for the virus. We will try to use the blood that is drawn during your baby's routine check-ups. If no such blood samples are available, we will ask about obtaining a small amount of blood from your baby (1 to 2 teaspoons). Our pediatric nurses have special training with babies and are experts at collecting blood samples. The reason we need blood samples is to observe how babies’ immune systems respond as they receive their normal vaccinations (DPT, etc.), and to see if babies born with roseola respond differently to the vaccine than those that get roseola virus later after birth.
At the last visit your baby will have a hearing test, which we will compare to the results of the hearing test your baby had at birth.
Finally, we compensate you for your time and travel with a set payment at each visit and we also pay for parking. We will even meet you in the hospital lobby to help you and show you the way to our rooms. If you have older children who need to be watched, we can help you with that also.
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