Creative Music Therapy in Newborns With Congenital Heart Disease (BOND)
Congenital Heart Disease, Mother Child Interaction
About this trial
This is an interventional supportive care trial for Congenital Heart Disease focused on measuring Parental mental health, Magnetic resonance Imaging
Eligibility Criteria
Inclusion Criteria: 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 Exclusion Criteria: - Gestational age at birth <35 weeks, age >28 days at diagnosis of CHD
Sites / Locations
- University Children's Hospital ZurichRecruiting
Arms of the Study
Arm 1
Arm 2
No Intervention
Experimental
Standard Care
Creative Music Therapy
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
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.