Status:

COMPLETED

Short-term Effects of Live Music in Preterm Infants

Lead Sponsor:

ARCIM Institute Academic Research in Complementary and Integrative Medicine

Collaborating Sponsors:

University Hospital Tuebingen

Conditions:

Prematurity

Eligibility:

All Genders

26-34 years

Phase:

NA

Brief Summary

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

Eligibility Criteria

Inclusion

  • 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

  • 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)

Key Trial Info

Start Date :

July 1 2013

Trial Type :

INTERVENTIONAL

Allocation :

ACTUAL

End Date :

Estimated Enrollment :

21 Patients enrolled

Trial Details

Trial ID

NCT01908244

Start Date

July 1 2013

Last Update

October 23 2013

Active Locations (2)

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Filderklinik

Filderstadt, Baden-Wurttemberg, Germany, 70794

2

Universtitätsklinikum für Kinder und Jugendmedizin, Abteilung IV Neonatologie

Tübingen, Baden-Wurttemberg, Germany, 72076