Long Term Development

The Baby Moves Project aims to assess the engagement with the Baby Moves smartphone application amongst high‐ and low‐risk infants' families and the socio‐demographic variables related to engagement.

To create a NHMRC-approved clinical practice guideline regarding health and developmental follow-up care for young children born very preterm.

This VICS project looks at understanding parent and teacher perceptions and decision making regarding the education of children born preterm.

Surveillance of developmental delay and impairments for young children born very preterm. 1) identify biological, medical and socio-demographic risk factors for developmental impairments in children born very preterm in a large-scale dataset generated by pooling international cohorts from an established consortium; 2) develop risk prediction models for developmental impairments in children born very preterm using machine learning. A digital tool for healthcare workers will then be designed based on these risk prediction models; 3) co-design with consumers and key stakeholders a targeted surveillance program for children born very preterm aged 2 to 4 years based on a child’s level and profile of risk; 4) evaluate a trial implementation of the targeted surveillance program, and then, adopting an implementation framework, we will generate an implementation toolkit for teams across Australia to use the program.

The Vibes Plus Project aims to assess the effectiveness of a home-based preventative intervention program for very preterm infants and their families

The Victorian Infant Collaborative Study (VICS) aims to evaluate the outcomes of neonatal intensive care for all infants born extremely preterm (i.e. less than 28 weeks’ gestation)/extremely low birth weight (i.e. less than 1000g) in the state of Victoria. There has been multiple cohorts recruited and accessed since the late 1970s.