NCT01595191

Bach Music in Preterm Infants: No "Mozart Effect" on Resting Energy Expenditure

• Status: Completed
• Phase: N/A
• Study type: Interventional
• Enrollment: 12 (actual)
• Sponsor: Tel-Aviv Sourasky Medical Center · Other Government
• Sex: All
• Age: 5 Days – 59 Days
• Healthy volunteers: Accepted

Summary

Exposure to Mozart music significantly lowers resting energy expenditure (REE) in healthy preterm infants. Whether this finding is related to music per-se or to music by Mozart is unknown. The objective is to study whether J.S. Bach music has a lowering effect on REE similar to that of Mozart music.

Conditions

• Resting Energy Expenditure

Interventions

Type	Name	Description
OTHER	Bach music	Infants listened to Bach or Mozart using the compact discs entitled "Baby Bach" and "Baby Mozart" (Baby smart, Nir Zvi, Israel).
OTHER	Mozart music	Infants listened to Bach or Mozart using the compact discs entitled "Baby Bach" and "Baby Mozart" (Baby smart, Nir Zvi, Israel).

Timeline

• Start date: 2010-07-01
• Primary completion: 2010-12-01
• Completion: 2010-12-01
• First posted: 2012-05-09
• Last updated: 2012-05-09

Locations

1 site across 1 country: Israel