Short Term Effects of Live Music in Newborn Infants

ARCIM Institute Academic Research in Complementary and Integrative Medicine

Status: Completed

Conditions: Newborn Infant

Treatments: Other: Music

Study type: Interventional

Funder types: Other

Identifiers

NCT01914341

ARCIM_MTN04

Details and patient eligibility

About

The purpose of this study is to determine the effects of live music on physiological parameters in newborn infants. The mother is asked about the effects of music on her own and the child's wellbeing.

Enrollment: 20 patients

Sex: All

Ages: 35+ weeks old

Volunteers: No Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion criteria

• Gestational age ≥ 35 weeks
• signed informed consent of the parents
• positive proof of hearing ability (TEOAE, transitory evoked otoacoustic emission)
• positive 10-minute Apgar-Score > 7

Exclusion criteria

• Heart defect or known cardiac arrhythmia
• other diseases of the preterm and newborn period (including infections and chromosomal aberrations)
• participation in other studies

Trial design

Primary purpose: Supportive Care

Allocation: Randomized

Interventional model: Crossover Assignment

Masking: None (Open label)

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20 participants in 2 patient groups

Music

Experimental group

Description:

pentatonic live music

Treatment:

Other: Music

control

No Intervention group

Description:

no intervention