The study purpose was to examine the effects of a 15-min live-music therapy intervention on
heart rate, oxygen saturation, level of motor activity, behavioral distress, and behavioral state …

Background: Music stimulation has been shown to provide significant benefits to preterm
infants. We hypothesized that live music therapy was more beneficial than recorded music …

DESIGN The design was a one-group repeated-measures crossover design in which infants
served as their own controls. Because music therapy was already a standard of care in the …

Introduction Despite persuasive theories about the beneficial effects of music and singing in
developmental care for premature infants, few small studies are available in this regard. We …

This meta-analysis on music research with premature infants in neonatal intensive care units
(NICU) showed an overall large, significant, consistent effect size of almost a standard …

Music therapy for hospitalized newborn infants is a relatively new area of prac-tice. Early
research in the 1970s focused on the preterm infant's need for stimulation, but by the early …

Music is widely used in the neonatal intensive care unit. The objectives of this systematic
review are:(1) clarify the current literature in regards to the impact of music on neonatal …

Background: Premature infants are exposed to high levels of noise in the neonatal intensive
care unit (NICU). Purpose: This study evaluated the effect of a relaxing music therapy …

Although there is general agreement that noise in the neonatal intensive care unit should be
reduced, there is controversy about the use of music as a developmental care strategy with …

Among the developmentally supportive care modalities that have been tested in the
treatment of preterm infants, music interventions have been tested quite intensively. This …