Trial reportPediatrics2014
A pacifier-activated music player with mother's voice improves oral feeding in preterm infants.
Trial report in Pediatrics, 2014. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. It is linked to 3 registered trials, which are not on this map. Cited by 44 papers, 3 of them syntheses that pooled it.
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The trial behind it
Trials whose registry record cites this paper, or whose number appears in the abstract. A trial that started after this paper was published is citing it as background, not reporting it.
The Effect of Facilitated Tucking and White Noise on Stress and Sleep of Newborns in Nasal CPAP
The Use of the Pacifier Activated Lullaby to Improve the Transition to Oral Feeding for Premature Infants With Chronic Lung Disease or Respiratory Distress Syndrome
Effect of Maternal Voice on Physiological Indicators and Feeding Performance During Full Oral Feeding Transition in Preterm Infants: A Randomized Controlled Trial
Who cites it
44 citing papers in PubMed, 3 syntheses or guidelines pooled it, 135 citations in OpenAlex.
- Motor Learning Feeding Interventions for Infants at Risk of Cerebral Palsy: A Systematic Review.Dysphagia · 2020Pooled it
- Reporting quality of music intervention research in healthcare: A systematic review.Complementary therapies in medicine · 2018Pooled it
- Do Hospitalized Premature Infants Benefit from Music Interventions? A Systematic Review of Randomized Controlled Trials.PloS one · 2016Pooled it
- The MIND Randomized Controlled Trial: An Intervention to Improve Neural Speech Processing and 2-Year Language Outcomes of Infants Born Preterm.The Journal of pediatrics · 2026Trial
- Effect of premature infant oral motor intervention [PIOMI] combined with music therapy on feeding progression of preterm infants: a randomized control trial.European journal of pediatrics · 2023Trial
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- Patterned frequency-modulated oral stimulation in preterm infants: A multicenter randomized controlled trial.PloS one · 2019Trial
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- Effects of standardized acoustic stimulation in premature infants: a randomized controlled trial.Journal of perinatology : official journal of the California Perinatal Association · 2016Trial
- Evaluation of the Family Integrated Care model of neonatal intensive care: a cluster randomized controlled trial in Canada and Australia.BMC pediatrics · 2015Trial
- A quarter century of research on infant contingency learning: Current and future directions.Infant behavior & development · 2025Review
- A Low-Cost Device for Measuring Non-Nutritive Sucking in Newborns.Sensors (Basel, Switzerland) · 2025Article
- Investigation of mothers' elicited infant-directed speech and singing for preterm infants.Pediatric research · 2025Article
- Contingent mother's voice intervention facilitates attention in hospitalized preterm infants with neural insults.Mind, brain and education : the official journal of the International Mind, Brain, and Education Society · 2025Article
- Music medicine and music therapy in neonatal care: a scoping review of passive music listening research applications and findings on infant development and medical practice.BMC pediatrics · 2024Article
- Effect of Music Intervention on Improving the Early Prognosis of the Preterm Infant in Chongqing, China: A Randomized Controlled Trial.Children (Basel, Switzerland) · 2024Article
- The effect of early postnatal auditory stimulation on outcomes in preterm infants.Pediatric research · 2024Review
- Longstanding Auditory Sensory and Semantic Differences in Preterm Born Children.Brain topography · 2024Article
- Investigating Relations between the NICU Speech Environment and Weight Gain in Infants Born Very Preterm.American journal of perinatology · 2024Article
- Parent-led neonatal pain management-a narrative review and update of research and practices.Frontiers in pain research (Lausanne, Switzerland) · 2024Review
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Authors and funding
5 authors at 4 institutions in 1 country.
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Abstract
objectivesWe conducted a randomized trial to test the hypothesis that mother's voice played through a pacifier-activated music player (PAM) during nonnutritive sucking would improve the development of sucking ability and promote more effective oral feeding in preterm infants.
methodsPreterm infants between 34 0/7 and 35 6/7 weeks' postmenstrual age, including those with brain injury, who were taking at least half their feedings enterally and less than half orally, were randomly assigned to receive 5 daily 15-minute sessions of either PAM with mother's recorded voice or no PAM, along with routine nonnutritive sucking and maternal care in both groups. Assignment was masked to the clinical team.
resultsNinety-four infants (46 and 48 in the PAM intervention and control groups, respectively) completed the study. The intervention group had significantly increased oral feeding rate (2.0 vs. 0.9 mL/min, P < .001), oral volume intake (91.1 vs. 48.1 mL/kg/d, P = .001), oral feeds/day (6.5 vs. 4.0, P < .001), and faster time-to-full oral feedings (31 vs. 38 d, P = .04) compared with controls. Weight gain and cortisol levels during the 5-day protocol were not different between groups. Average hospital stays were 20% shorter in the PAM group, but the difference was not significant (P = .07).
conclusionsA PAM using mother's voice improves oral feeding skills in preterm infants without adverse effects on hormonal stress or growth.
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