Effects of Oriental Music on Preterm Infants

NCT ID: NCT04565210

Last Updated: 2025-04-04

Study Results

Results pending

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Basic Information

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Recruitment Status

TERMINATED

Clinical Phase

NA

Total Enrollment

102 participants

Study Classification

INTERVENTIONAL

Study Start Date

2020-10-15

Study Completion Date

2025-01-30

Brief Summary

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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

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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

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Premature Behavior, Child

Study Design

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Allocation Method

RANDOMIZED

Intervention Model

PARALLEL

Primary Study Purpose

SUPPORTIVE_CARE

Blinding Strategy

DOUBLE

Participants Outcome Assessors

Study Groups

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Oriental music

Infants assigned to this group will be exposed to oriental music.

Group Type EXPERIMENTAL

Music exposure

Intervention Type OTHER

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.

Western music

Infants assigned to this group will be exposed to western music.

Group Type ACTIVE_COMPARATOR

Music exposure

Intervention Type OTHER

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.

Silence / control

Infants assigned to this group will be exposed to the same protocol but using a track of silence.

Group Type PLACEBO_COMPARATOR

Silence

Intervention Type OTHER

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.

Interventions

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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.

Intervention Type 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.

Intervention Type OTHER

Other Intervention Names

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No music

Eligibility Criteria

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Inclusion Criteria

* Clinically stable infants born between 28 and 366/7 weeks of gestation and ≥31 weeks Post Menstrual Age (PMA).
* Infants planned to stay in the NICU for at least 2 weeks at the time of enrollment.

Exclusion Criteria

* Congenital anomaly affecting heart rate and hearing, significant brain insult (such as severe or moderate hypoxic ischemic encephalopathy, intraventricular hemorrhage (IVH) grade 3 or 4 or periventricular leukomalacia) that might affect the neurodevelopmental outcome.
* Receiving medications that might interfere with heart rate and reaction to music exposure such as midazolam or morphine.
Minimum Eligible Age

14 Days

Maximum Eligible Age

28 Days

Eligible Sex

ALL

Accepts Healthy Volunteers

Yes

Sponsors

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American University of Beirut Medical Center

OTHER

Sponsor Role lead

Responsible Party

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Responsibility Role SPONSOR

Principal Investigators

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Lama Charafeddine, MD

Role: PRINCIPAL_INVESTIGATOR

American University of Beirut Medical Center

Locations

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American University of Beirut

Beirut, , Lebanon

Site Status

Countries

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Lebanon

Other Identifiers

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SBS-2020-0284

Identifier Type: -

Identifier Source: org_study_id

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