Music Therapy for Pain Management for Minor Procedures in Neonates.

Stopped early · Not applicable · Has a placebo group

Conditions studied: Pain

In brief

The aim of this study is to assess the effectiveness and safety of music therapy as adjuvant therapy for pain management in newborns undergoing minor painful procedures. It is a prospective study and we plan to enroll 200 healthy full term newborns undergoing minor procedures (heel pricks). They will be randomly assigned to either control or music group. Those in music group will receive recorded Mozart lullaby music. Pain will be assessed using NIPS (Neonatal Infant Pain Scale) scoring tool. The potential benefit of the study would be identifying music a safe and efficient adjuvant therapy for pain management in newborns.

Key facts

Study ID

NCT04313179

Run by

New York City Health and Hospitals Corporation

People needed

100

Starts

2019-04-09

Expected to finish

2020-02-25

Last updated by the study team

2021-03-16

Who can join

Age: 1 and older, up to 1. Sex: any. Healthy volunteers: accepted.

You may qualify if…

• >37 weeks gestation babies

You may not qualify if…

• <37 weeks gestation babies
• Major congenital anomalies
• Failed hearing screen

Where it is running

• Lincoln Medical Center — The Bronx, New York, United States

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