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## Background In Neonatal Intensive Care Units (NICUs) premature infants are exposed to various acoustic, environmental and emotional stressors which have a negative impact on their development and the mental health of their parents. Family-centred music therapy bears the potential to positively influence these stressors. The few existing studies indicate that interactive live-improvised music therapy interventions both reduce parental stress factors and support preterm infants’ development. ## Methods The present randomized controlled longitudinal study (RCT) with very low and extremely low birth weight infants (born <30+0 weeks of gestation) and their parents analyzed the influence of music therapy on both the physiological development of premature infants and parental stress factors. In addition, possible interrelations between infant development and parental stress were explored. 65 parent-infant-pairs were enrolled in the study. The treatment group received music therapy twice a week from the 21^st^ day of life till discharge from hospital. The control group received treatment as usual. ## Results Compared to the control group, infants in the treatment group showed a 11.1 days

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Author

Barbara M. Menke; Joachim Hass; Carsten Diener; Johannes Pöschl

Publisher

Public Library of Science (PLoS)

Published

2021

Language

EN

Field

Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology (Life Sciences)