Debra Brandon, associate professor, and her team have received an award for their multi-PI subcontract with Children’s Hospital of Wisconsin on an NICHD R01 proposal entitled "Implementation of an Evidence-based Parentally Administered Intervention for Preterm Infants." This award is for a five-year period that began on April 15 and will last until March 31, 2025. 

The proposed multi-site study will test the implementation, adoption and sustainability of an early developmentally-based, multi-sensory behavioral intervention, termed H-HOPE, as standard of care in neonatal settings.

I. As Quantitative Data Center, specific objectives and tasks include:

1. Development and maintenance of the Quantitative REDCap database for all implementation sites;

2. Develop and conduct of quality control evaluations of the data collection processed to ensure data quality for sites;

3. Development of procedures for EHR data extraction;

4. Conduct of Quantitative Data Center team meetings;

5. Conduct of quantitative analyses for data safety and monitoring board meetings;

6. Conduct quantitative data analyses for all grant progress reports;

7. Establish research datasets for analyses;

8. Conduct all quantitative data analyses to answer the study aims; and

9. Serve as the data repository for all quantitative study data.

II. As an implementation site for two nurseries, specific objectives and tasks include:

1. Facilitation of introductions to all stakeholders involved in the implementation of H-HOPE at Duke and DRH;

2. Facilitation of training of all site providers who will participate in the delivery of the H-HOPE intervention;

3. Implementation of H-HOPE intervention at Duke and DRH;

4. Support the identification and confirming of H-HOPE Team members;

5. Support the identification and confirmation of H-HOPE Trainers;

6. Scheduling site H-HOPE Team meetings;

7. Chairing/facilitating/participation in the H-HOPE Site Team meetings;

8. Assisting nursery staff with problem solving issues regarding the intervention and the implementation process;

9. Recruitment of approximately 176 pre-implementation and H-HOPE infant/parent(s) participants;

10. Development and conduct of all IRB processes for Duke and DRH; and

11. Conduct of EHR data extraction for Duke and DRH.