Purpose: To provide an overview of developmental and medical benefits of music therapy
for preterm infants. Design: Meta-analysis. Sample: Empirical music studies with preterm …

Music is so ubiquitous that it can be easy to overlook the powerful influence it exerts in so
many areas of our lives-from birth, through childhood, to old age. The Social and Applied …

Surviviors of extreme prematurity (less than 26 weeks gestational age) may have long-term
impairment, including developmental disabilities and neurological deficits that become …

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 …

Aim and objective. This research aimed to assess the effect of giving pacifiers to premature
infants and making them listen to lullabies on the transition period to total oral feeding, their …

The purpose of this study was to examine gender differences with regard to cochlea
sensitivity as measured by the transient evoked Otoacoustic emissions hearing screening …

This study assessed music as reinforcement for non-nutritive sucking of 12 premature infants
born at an average gestation of 29.3 weeks and an average birthweight of 1111.9 g. At the …

Infants seek contingent, companionable interactions with others. Infants in a Neonatal
Intensive Care Unit (NICU), while receiving care that optimizes their chances of survival …

Medical music therapy, which has developed rapidly in the last 15 years, has been
effectively used with preterm infants in neonatal intensive care units. The purpose of this …

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 …