The Effects of Music Therapy on Vital Signs, Feeding, and Sleep in Premature Infants

Loewy, Joanne V.; Stewart, Kristen; Dassler, Ann-Marie; Telsey, Aimee; Homel, Peter

doi:10.1542/peds.2012-1367

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“…6 MT within the setting of prematurity relates to the informed use of music and aspects of a therapeutic relationship to promote optimal infant development and facilitate secure attachment with primary caregivers. When used within a NICU environment, MT may facilitate infant sensory regulation 7 and promote ongoing neurologic development. Music therapists tailor MT to the developmental readiness of the neonate and may include live or prerecorded music with a focus on the infant or on the caregiver/infant dyad.…”

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Music Therapy for Preterm Infants and Their Parents: A Meta-analysis

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CONTEXT: Given the recent expansion of research in the area of music therapy (MT) for preterm infants, there is a need for an up-to-date meta-analysis of rigorously designed studies that focus exclusively on MT. OBJECTIVE:To systematically review and meta-analyze the effect of MT on preterm infants and their parents during NICU hospitalization and after discharge from the hospital.DATA SOURCES: PubMed/Medline, PsycINFO, Embase, Cochrane Database of Systematic Reviews, CINAHL, ERIC, Web of Science, RILM. STUDY SELECTION:Only parallel or crossover randomized controlled trials of MT versus standard care, comparison therapy, or placebo were included.DATA EXTRACTION: Independent extraction by 2 reviewers, including risk of bias indicators. RESULTS:From 1803 relevant records, 16 met inclusion criteria, of which 14 contained appropriate data for meta-analysis involving 964 infant participants and 266 parent participants. Overall, random-effects meta-analyses suggested significant large effects favoring MT for infant respiratory rate (mean difference, -3.91/min, 95% confidence interval, −7.8 to −0.03) and maternal anxiety (standardized mean difference, -1.82, 95% confidence interval, −2.42 to −1.22). There was not enough evidence to confirm or refute any effects of MT on other physiologic and behavioral outcomes or on short-term infant and service-level outcomes. There was considerable heterogeneity between studies for the majority of outcomes.LIMITATIONS: This review is limited by a lack of studies assessing long-term outcomes. CONCLUSIONS:There is sufficient evidence to confirm a large, favorable effect of MT on infant respiratory rate and maternal anxiety. More rigorous research on short-term and long-term infant and parent outcomes is required.

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Music Therapy for Preterm Infants and Their Parents: A Meta-analysis

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“…And also same results are taken from pediatric intensive care patients, chronic other patients, hospice patients and their health professionals, too (Demmer and Sauer, 2002;Bouhairie et al, 2006;Mathur et al, 2008;Loewy et al, 2013). Chang et al (2011) research complementary and alternative medicines in patients, healthy people and health professionals via a survey and this cohort study shows us that music therapy is not preferable very much.…”

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“…In previous studies, the positive effects of music and music sounds in patients with physiological disorders like anxiety, chronic and or geriatric diseases like coroner heart disease, cancer or chronic pain were researched Azoulay et al, 2013;Loewy et al, 2013;O'Callaghan et al, 2013). From the literature, most of those studies were observational studies which were done by doctors, nurses and music therapists.…”

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Perspectives of Medical Oncologists regarding Music Therapy for Patients with Cancer in Turkey - Can Musicology be Integrated into Psycho-oncology?

Tanrıverdi¹,

Aydemir²

2013

Asian Pacific Journal of Cancer Prevention

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Background: Music therapy is a common complementary and alternative therapy in addition to medical treatment for patients with cancer. If music therapy, which is known has a positive effect on human emotions and behaviors, is a useful additional therapy, it should be more integrated into pyscho-oncology. In this study, we aimed to determine medical oncologist attitudes to music therapy for patients with cancer and knowledge about musicology and music therapy in Turkey. Materials and Methods: This survey study included questions about participant attitudes and knowledge regarding music therapy as well as demographic characteristics. The population of the study were 402 physicians working in medical oncology in Turkey and the sample covered 112 participants in the the survey. For statistical analyses the chi-square test, Fischer exact test, and Mann-Whitney U analysis are applied. Results: In our study the rate for medical oncologists who were interested in music therapy was 28% (n=112). Some 30% (n=34) of medical oncologists recommended music therapy for their patients and 55% (n=61) recommended music therapy to prevent anxiety in patients with cancer. Conclusions: In this study, for more harmony with patients and in order to ensure management of adverse effect, it was concluded that music therapy should be regrded as an additional therapy in oncology clinics.

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“…The more prolonged skin-skin contact used for premature infants (known as Kangaroo care) has been reported to reduce the risk of infections [92] and support breastfeeding [93]. Additionally, with premature births and feeding concerns, specific music therapy, such as recorded music of lullabies that the parents prefer, has been reported to: 1) entrain heart and breathing rates, and 2) increase both sucking behavior and caloric intake [94]. The two preventive processes, natural childbirth and breastfeeding, can be viewed as a useful continuum for effective developmental programming of immune-microbiome homeostasis.…”

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Natural Childbirth and Breastfeeding as Preventive Measures of Immune- Microbiome Dysbiosis and Misregulated Inflammation

Dietert¹

2013

J Anc Dis Prev Rem

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Much of the prior century was spent applying the latest emerging technologies toward managing pregnancy, childbirth, and infant development. The idea was that each change was significantly improving the health of our children across their lifetime. But it is now clear that with several of the adopted practices, there have been unintended consequences. We have run the risk of losing certain distinct advantages that were inherently embedded in ancient cultures and practices. Among these were the microbial-rich experiences of natural childbirth, breastfeeding, and agrarian living. These practices permitted children to acquire a complete microbiome thereby facilitating immune development and appropriate later-life immune responses. Perceived technology-associated benefits such as scheduled Caesarian births, urban sanitized living, and earlier and ever increasing vaccine burdens have helped to reduce the burden of some childhood illnesses. But recent studies suggest that they have also produced serious, unanticipated consequences for today's children: an increased likelihood for human-microbiome incompleteness, lifelong immune dysfunction, and inflammation-promoted chronic disease. This review will examine recent evidence suggesting that a more effective blending of ancient practices and remedies with modern technology and medical knowledge could help to restore the human-microbiome super organism to its historic status, improve pediatric immune homeostasis and reduce risk of later-life chronic diseases.historic birth and infant feeding practices. As discussed by Wolf [4], there is an irony that early in the 20 th century public health officials were advocating increased breastfeeding by mothers and early in the 21 st century the same exact message has been repeated albeit with a different mix of reasons [4]. In the case of the 20 th century call for increased breastfeeding, the primary health concerns were for acute illnesses such as diarrheal diseases, pneumonia, and necrotizing colitis [4]. But for the more recent call, the preventative focus is larger and includes the prevention of noncommunicable chronic diseases (NCDs) [5]. This review considers: 1) shifting historic views regarding the value of natural childbirth and breastfeeding as preventive measures, and 2) an emerging paradigm in which natural childbirth (NC) and prolonged infant breastfeeding combine to reduce the risk of inflammation-driven chronic diseases via immune-microbiome co-maturation as well as other possible developmentally-programmed routes. Additionally, NC and breastfeeding are discussed under the broader human ecological framework of a developmental model in which effective humanmicrobe super organism formation between the child's mammalian component and symbiotic microbes that form the child's microbiome, termed the "Completed Self " [6]. Timely, complete and individualized formation of this symbiotic human mammalian-microbial organism or "Completed Self " has been suggested as perhaps the single most important biological sign con...

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The Effects of Music Therapy on Vital Signs, Feeding, and Sleep in Premature Infants

Cited by 343 publications

References 51 publications

Music Therapy for Preterm Infants and Their Parents: A Meta-analysis

Music Therapy for Preterm Infants and Their Parents: A Meta-analysis

Perspectives of Medical Oncologists regarding Music Therapy for Patients with Cancer in Turkey - Can Musicology be Integrated into Psycho-oncology?

Natural Childbirth and Breastfeeding as Preventive Measures of Immune- Microbiome Dysbiosis and Misregulated Inflammation

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