Parental Participation in Individually Customized Physiotherapy for Preterm Infants in the Neonatal Intensive Care Unit: Effects and Experiences. The Pragmatic Randomized Controlled Part.

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This is a pragmatic randomized controlled study. The purpose of the study is to evaluate the practice and effect of customised physiotherapy on preterm infants'motor development when the intervention is performed over a period of three weeks while the infant resides in the neonatal intensive care unit. The study will also attempt to analyze the parents' experiences in being actively involved in education and practice of the intervention designed to promote the child's motor development, and the effects on the parent-child relationship in the short and long term.The children are followed up until a corrected age of two years. This study consists of a pragmatic randomized controlled trial and a qualitative study.

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