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Music Hath Charms for Care of Preemies
Charles Marwick
JAMA. 2000;283:468-469.
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Washington—Music played in the neonatal intensive care unit gives premature infants a better chance at life. Recorded lullaby music in the infant's isolette or, even better, a mother's gentle crooning and massaging, improves oxygen saturation levels, increases weight gain, and shortens the duration of hospital stay.
These physiological benefits were reported here by Jayne M. Standley, PhD, director of the Center for Music Research at Florida State University in Tallahassee, at the Ninth World Congress of Music Therapy.
In a controlled study of 40 infants matched for gestational age, sex, and birth weight, 20 of them—once or twice a week until they were discharged—had lullabies sung to them and were massaged. The other 20 served as controls. The hospital stay was shortened by an average of 11 days for female infants and 1.5 days for male infants in the music and massage group compared with the control . . . [Full Text of this Article]
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