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Bach Music in Preterm Infants: No "Mozart Effect" on Resting Energy Expenditure

NCT01595191 · Status: COMPLETED · Phase: NA · Type: INTERVENTIONAL · Enrollment: 12

Last updated 2012-05-09

No results posted yet for this study

Summary

Exposure to Mozart music significantly lowers resting energy expenditure (REE) in healthy preterm infants. Whether this finding is related to music per-se or to music by Mozart is unknown. The objective is to study whether J.S. Bach music has a lowering effect on REE similar to that of Mozart music.

Conditions

  • Resting Energy Expenditure

Interventions

OTHER

Bach music

Infants listened to Bach or Mozart using the compact discs entitled "Baby Bach" and "Baby Mozart" (Baby smart, Nir Zvi, Israel).

OTHER

Mozart music

Infants listened to Bach or Mozart using the compact discs entitled "Baby Bach" and "Baby Mozart" (Baby smart, Nir Zvi, Israel).

Sponsors & Collaborators

  • Tel-Aviv Sourasky Medical Center

    lead OTHER_GOV

Principal Investigators

  • Dror Mandel, MD · Direcrotr, NICU

Study Design

Allocation
RANDOMIZED
Purpose
TREATMENT
Masking
NONE
Model
CROSSOVER

Eligibility

Min Age
5 Days
Max Age
59 Days
Sex
ALL
Healthy Volunteers
Yes

Timeline & Regulatory

Start
2010-07-31
Primary Completion
2010-12-31
Completion
2010-12-31

Countries

  • Israel

Study Locations

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