E-health-supported Diagnostic and Intervention in Preterm Born Children and Their Families

The app-based diagnostic and support approach with a focus on mental and somatic symptoms is intended to strengthen the resilience of premature born children and families and to identify risk and resilience factors.The overall objective of the study is to improve the post-inpatient care of families with premature born children. The procedure is evaluated by a two-arm design with an experimental group and a TAU group.

Inclusion Criteria: * Premature babies born at the UKT, * Gestational age 28-34 weeks, * Mother: age ≥ 18 years, * agreement to participate in this study and signing of a consent form, * sufficient knowledge of German, * internet access Exclusion Criteria: * Premature babies \< 28th or \>34th week of pregnancy, * at least one of the children has serious diseases of the nervous system or obvious symptoms of a nervous disease, * at least one of the children has serious congenital diseases or suffers from malformations, * Mother: Lack of access to a smartphone/tablet, * no internet access, * insufficient knowledge of German