Creative Music Therapy in Newborns With Congenital Heart Disease

Trial statusRecruiting
Trial phaseNot applicable
Trial typeInterventional
Biological sexAll
Age1-28
SponsorUniversity Children's Hospital, Zurich

About this trial

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 criteria

Qualifiers

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

Disqualifiers

None

Trial design

Treatments tested in this trial

  • Creative Music Therapy

Treatment groups

164 Participants
are divided into 2 treatment groups