Music and Feeding in NICU

Christiana Care Health Services

Status: Completed

Conditions: NICU; Mozart; Weight Gain; Preterm Infants; Feeding

Treatments: Other: No music.; Other: Music

Study type: Interventional

Funder types: Other

Identifiers

NCT02919358

DDD603441

Details and patient eligibility

About

The purpose of this study is to investigate the effect of classical music exposure on improved time to regain birth weight and improved feeding readiness in healthy premature infants in the NICU.

Enrollment: 40 patients

Sex: All

Ages: 28 to 31 weeks old

Volunteers: No Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion criteria

• • Neonates between the gestational ages of 28 weeks and 32 weeks and 6 days

  • Parents ≥18 years of age
  • English speaking parents
  • Breastmilk as intended primary form of nutrition

Exclusion criteria

• Congenital anomalies affecting hearing or feeding skills
• Patients requiring HFOV or HFJV

Trial design

Primary purpose: Basic Science

Allocation: Randomized

Interventional model: Parallel Assignment

Masking: Single Blind

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40 participants in 2 patient groups

Music

Experimental group

Description:

Exposure to music, twice per day for the study period

Treatment:

Other: Music

Control

Other group

Description:

No intervention; standard care.

Treatment:

Other: No music.