NCT04565210

Effects of Oriental Music on Preterm Infants

Effects of Oriental Music oN Preterm InfAnts: A Randomized Controlled Trial. (OMNIA Trial)

• Status: Terminated
• Phase: N/A
• Study type: Interventional
• Enrollment: 102 (actual)
• Sponsor: American University of Beirut Medical Center · Academic / Other
• Sex: All
• Age: 14 Days – 28 Days
• Healthy volunteers: Accepted

Summary

The goal of this study is to explore the effect of oriental music on premature infants' physiological and behavioral parameters during their hospital stay in the NICU.

Detailed description

Music exposure during care of preterm infants is the subject of increasing research. Many studies have shown positive impact of music exposure such as classical western music, lullabies or Quran on pain and physiological parameters of preterm infants in a neonatal intensive care unit (NICU) setting. No such study have explored the effect of oriental music which is the main popular music listened to in the Levant and Middle East and North Afrika (MENA) region. We aim in this study to find out if the oriental music exposure in preterm infants improves babies' heart rate variability, physiological parameters and behavior state during their NICU stay.

Conditions

• Premature
• Behavior, Child

Interventions

Type	Name	Description
OTHER	Music exposure	Participants will be offered individual sessions of music. They will be exposed for 10 minutes per day, 3 days per week for a period of 2 weeks using a headphone.
OTHER	Silence	Participants in this group will be offered individual silence session for 10 minutes per day, 3 days per week for a period of 2 weeks using a headphone.

Timeline

• Start date: 2020-10-15
• Primary completion: 2023-02-15
• Completion: 2025-01-30
• First posted: 2020-09-25
• Last updated: 2025-04-04

Locations

1 site across 1 country: Lebanon