Short-term Effects of Live Music in Preterm Infants (MTN05)

ARCIM Institute Academic Research in Complementary and Integrative Medicine

Status: Completed

Conditions: Prematurity

Treatments: Other: Music

Study type: Interventional

Funder types: Other

Identifiers

NCT01908244

ARCIM_MTN05

Details and patient eligibility

About

The purpose of this study is to determine the effects of pentatonic live music on physiological parameters in preterm infants.

Enrollment: 21 patients

Sex: All

Ages: 26 to 34 weeks old

Volunteers: No Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion criteria

• Gestational age 26-34 weeks; no use of CPAP (Continous Positive Airway Pressure) or any other form of mechanical ventilation; signed informed consent of the parents

Exclusion criteria

• Heart defect or known cardiac arrhythmia; other diseases of the preterm and newborn period (including infections and chromosomal aberrations) which make an additional diagnostic and therapeutic intervention unacceptable; detection of deafness (TEOAE, transitory evoked otoacoustic emission)

Trial design

Primary purpose: Supportive Care

Allocation: Randomized

Interventional model: Crossover Assignment

Masking: Single Blind

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21 participants in 2 patient groups

Control

No Intervention group

Description:

No pentatonic music

Music

Experimental group

Treatment:

Other: Music