Creative Music Therapy in Newborns With Congenital Heart Disease: A Randomized Clinical Trial

Status: Recruiting
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Intervention Type: Other
Study Type: Interventional
Study Phase: Not Applicable
SUMMARY

In the context of a clinical trial, the investigators will evaluate if parent-infant interaction can be improved by a family integrated, individualised, interactive resource- and needs-oriented music therapy approach in the dyads of infants with congenital heart disease and their parents. This intervention will be compared with the standard of care. Infants allocated to the control group will receive standard care during admission. Standard care includes involvement of a multi-professional team consisting of medical and nursing team, psychologists/psychiatrists, social workers, breastfeeding counsellor, speech therapist, nutritional counsellor and physiotherapists.

Eligibility
Participation Requirements
Sex: All
Minimum Age: Newborn
Maximum Age: 28 days
Healthy Volunteers: f
View:

• All newborn infants with CHD born \>35 weeks of gestational and \<28 days at diagnosis of CHD irrespective of severity of the heart disease

• Admitted to Neonatal Intensiv Care Unit/Pediatric Intensiv Care Unit (NICU/PICU) at the Children's University Hospital

• Infants with syndromes and /or confirmed chromosomal abnormalities

Locations
Other Locations
Switzerland
University Children's Hospital Zurich
RECRUITING
Zurich
Contact Information
Primary
Cornelia Hagmann, Prof. Dr.
cornelia.hagmann@kispi.uzh.ch
041 44 266 35 27
Time Frame
Start Date: 2022-11-22
Estimated Completion Date: 2026-10-24
Participants
Target number of participants: 164
Treatments
No_intervention: Standard Care
Infants allocated to the control group will receive standard care during admission. Standard care includes involvement of a multi-professional team consisting of medical and nursing team, psychologists/psychiatrists, social workers, breastfeeding counsellor, speech therapist, nutritional counsellor and physiotherapists
Experimental: Creative Music Therapy
A certified, well-trained and experienced music therapist will formulate an individualized, culturally adapted treatment plan based on an initial infant-parent assessment, which includes assessment of parental needs, musical heritage, culture, context, and parental integration in the therapeutic process. During hospitalization 3 times per week 20 minutes of creative music therapy sessions will be performed, a minimum of 10 therapy session. After discharge, every other two weeks a music therapy session will be performed at home until the age of six months.
Related Therapeutic Areas
Sponsors
Leads: University Children's Hospital, Zurich

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