BRACELET Study

The BRACELET Study is looking for bereaved parents whose baby took part in a clinical trial in neonatal intensive care because they want to know their views about participating in research at such a difficult time. This is important because the views of bereaved parents have not be sought out until now and those views will help guide how research into treatments for very sick babies might be run in the future.

When sick babies are looked after in a neonatal intensive care unit (NICU), their parents are sometimes asked if they can take part in a randomised controlled clinical trial. These trials are carried out to try to improve treatments for babies in the future.

Lots of trials are carried out in NICUs. They look at many different treatments for sick babies; they can involve medicines and gases and different types of equipment like cooling systems, feeding tubes, ventilators or ways of monitoring babies. Trials can also be used to compare ways of caring for babies, for instance how their feeds or pain might be managed. They are given names such as the ECMO Trial, INIS, PROGRAMS, TOBY and the INNOVO Trial.

Your baby may have taken part in one of these trials some time ago, or one of the many other more recent trials.

If you would like to know more about the study you can go to www.bracelet-study.org.uk or you can also contact the researchers by email or telephone.

Contact information:

Dr Claire Snowdon and Professor Diana Elbourne

Department of Medical Statistics
London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine
University of London
WC1E 7HE

Tel. 0770 3716112
claire.snowdon@lshtm.ac.uk

Tel. 0207 9272629
diana.elbourne@lshtm.ac.uk