Do Hospitalized Premature Infants Benefit from Music Interventions? A Systematic Review of Randomized Controlled Trials
van der Heijden MJ, Oliai Araghi S, Jeekel J, Reiss IK, Hunink MG, van Dijk M
PloS one · 52 citations
How it was studied
- Design
- Meta-analysis (indexed by PubMed)
- Studied in
- People
- Main outcome
- Health markers and function
Who paid for it
- Funding
- Independent funding
- University or hospital
- Erasmus Medisch Centrum
- Nonprofit
- Stichting Swart-van Essen
- Nonprofit
- Stichting Coolsingel
- Nonprofit
- Verhagen Stichting
- Nonprofit
- Stichting van Ommeren/De Voogt
- Nonprofit
- Stichting Aelwijn Florisz
- Nonprofit
- Stichting Mathilde Elise
- University or hospital
- Internal Grant Erasmus MC for Integrative Medicine
- Nonprofit
- Stichting Aerarium Sanctius
- Nonprofit
- Erasmus Stichting
- Nonprofit
- Gilles Hondius Foundation
Based on 11 listed funder(s) and full-text disclosure statement.
Publication
- Published
- 2016-09-08 · PLoS One · vol. 11 · issue 9 · p. e0161848
- Publisher
- Public Library of Science
- Cited
- 107 citations · more than 88% of similar papers · 2.2× the field average
- References
- 52 works
- Access
- Open access (journal) · CC-BY
- Research areas
- Infant Development and Preterm Care · Neonatal Respiratory Health Research · Pediatric Pain Management Techniques
- Keywords
- Randomized controlled trial, Psychological intervention, Music therapy, Medicine, Systematic review, MEDLINE, Intervention (counseling), Pediatrics, Physical therapy, Psychiatry, Surgery
- MeSH
- humans, treatment outcome, music therapy, hospitalization, behavior, publication bias, infant, newborn, infant, premature, randomized controlled trials as topic, pain management
6 authors
From NL, US
- Marianne J. E. van der Heijden · correspondingErasmus MC; Erasmus University Rotterdam
- Sadaf Oliai AraghiErasmus MC; Erasmus University Rotterdam
- J JeekelErasmus MC; Erasmus University Rotterdam
- Irwin K. M. ReissErasmus MC; Erasmus University Rotterdam
- M. G. Myriam HuninkHarvard University; Erasmus MC; Erasmus University Rotterdam
- Monique van DijkErasmus MC; Erasmus University Rotterdam
Abstract
Objective
Neonatal intensive care units (NICU) around the world increasingly use music interventions. The most recent systematic review of randomized controlled trials (RCT) dates from 2009. Since then, 15 new RCTs have been published. We provide an updated systematic review on the possible benefits of music interventions on premature infants' well-being.
Methods
We searched 13 electronic databases and 12 journals from their first available date until August 2016. Included were all RCTs published in English with at least 10 participants per group, including infants born prematurely and admitted to the NICU. Interventions were either recorded music interventions or live music therapy interventions. All control conditions were accepted as long as the effects of the music intervention could be analysed separately. A meta-analysis was not possible due to incompleteness and heterogeneity of the data.
Results
After removal of duplicates the searches retrieved 4893 citations, 20 of which fulfilled the inclusion/exclusion criteria. The 20 included studies encompassed 1128 participants receiving recorded or live music interventions in the NICU between 24 and 40 weeks gestational age. Twenty-six different outcomes were reported which we classified into three categories: physiological parameters; growth and feeding; behavioural state, relaxation outcomes and pain. Live music interventions were shown to improve sleep in three out of the four studies and heart rate in two out of the four studies. Recorded music improved heart rate in two out of six studies. Better feeding and sucking outcomes were reported in one study using live music and in two studies using recorded music.
Conclusions
Although music interventions show promising results in some studies, the variation in quality of the studies, age groups, outcome measures and timing of the interventions across the studies makes it difficult to draw strong conclusions on the effects of music in premature infants.
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