NCT01511952

A Multi-Site Study of Music Therapy Interventions on Vitals, Feeding and Sleep in Premature Infants

• Status: Completed
• Phase: N/A
• Study type: Interventional
• Enrollment: 272 (actual)
• Sponsor: Beth Israel Medical Center · Academic / Other
• Sex: All
• Age: 32 Weeks – 40 Weeks
• Healthy volunteers: Not accepted

Summary

This is a multi-site study of 272 premature infants \>32 weeks who served in a randomized investigation (in morning or afternoon) where they served as their own controls. The infants' HR, RR, O2sats were measured with and without the implementation fo live music. The live interventions included songs of kin, selected by parents, the gato box and ocean disc played through entrained methods by a music therapist. The infants were evaluated within a two week period and in total each day including feeds, voids, activity level and sleep.

Conditions

• Prematurity
• Sepsis
• SGA
• RDS

Interventions

Type	Name	Description
OTHER	Music Intervention	Applied by randomization-live at bassinet in the AM or PM Gato Box, Ocean Disc or parent-selected lullabies
OTHER	Music	Remo Ocean disc Gato box Music therapist's or Parent's preferred lullaby or 'Twinkle'

Timeline

• Start date: 2007-01-01
• Primary completion: 2010-12-01
• Completion: 2010-12-01
• First posted: 2012-01-19
• Last updated: 2015-03-24