Music and Feeding in NICU

Weight Gain Clinical Trial

Official title:

The Mozart Effect and the Assessment of Weight Gain and Development of Feeding Skills in the NICU.

Clinical Trial Details — Status: Completed

Administrative data

• NCT number: NCT02919358
• Other study ID #: DDD603441
• Status: Completed
• Phase: N/A
• Start date: December 2016
• Est. completion date: May 2018

Study information

• Verified date: May 2018
• Source: Christiana Care Health Services
• Contact: n/a
• Is FDA regulated: No
• Study type: Interventional

Clinical Trial Summary

The purpose of this study is to investigate the effect of classical music exposure on improved time to regain birth weight and improved feeding readiness in healthy premature infants in the NICU.

Recruitment information / eligibility

• Status: Completed
• Enrollment: 40
• Est. completion date: May 2018
• Est. primary completion date: April 2018
• Accepts healthy volunteers: No
• Gender: All
• Age group: 28 Weeks to 31 Weeks

Eligibility

Inclusion Criteria:

• • Neonates between the gestational ages of 28 weeks and 32 weeks and 6 days

• Parents =18 years of age

• English speaking parents

• Breastmilk as intended primary form of nutrition

Exclusion Criteria:

• Congenital anomalies affecting hearing or feeding skills

• Patients requiring HFOV or HFJV

Related Conditions & MeSH terms

• Feeding
• Mozart
• NICU
• Preterm Infants
• Weight Gain

Intervention

Other:
• Music

• No music.
This is the control group.

Locations

Country	Name	City	State
United States	Christiana Care Health System	Newark	Delaware

Sponsors (1)

Lead Sponsor	Collaborator
Christiana Care Health Services

Country where clinical trial is conducted

United States, 

Outcome

Type	Measure	Description	Time frame	Safety issue
Primary	The primary outcome is time to regain birth weight	We will track weight gain and will monitor how long it takes for the babies to regain their birth weight.	2 weeks
Secondary	Assessment of Feeding Cues	At 33 weeks corrected gestational age; a speech therapist will assess feeding cues daily using an objective oral feeding assessment tool	2 weeks