The Effect of Music on Preterm Infant's Brain Development

Pediatric Clinical Research Platform

Status: Enrolling

Conditions: Prematurity

Treatments: Other: Music

Study type: Interventional

Funder types: Other

Identifiers

NCT03689725

SNF 32473B_135817/1

Details and patient eligibility

About

Studying the effect of music intervention on preterm infants' brain development by MRI and neurodevelopmental assessments

Enrollment: 63 estimated patients

Sex: All

Ages: 33 to 42 weeks old

Volunteers: Accepts Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion criteria

• Preterm infants: 33 weeks < gestational age < 37 weeks
• Full-term newborns: 37 weeks gestational age < 42 weeks

Exclusion criteria

• Neurological issues or malformations (such as III-IV stade Intraventricular hemorrhage, micro or macrocephaly, hydrocephaly...)
• Because of the high noise caused by nasal continuous positive airway pressure (nCPAP), preterm newborns without at least nCPAP pause before 32 6/7 gestational age will be excluded

Trial design

Primary purpose: Prevention

Allocation: Randomized

Interventional model: Parallel Assignment

Masking: Quadruple Blind

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63 participants in 3 patient groups

Preterm music group

Experimental group

Description:

Music exposure with headphones

Treatment:

Other: Music

Preterm control group

No Intervention group

Description:

headphones without music

Full-term control group

No Intervention group