Music Therapy for Pain Management for Minor Procedures in Neonates.

The aim of this study is to assess the effectiveness and safety of music therapy as adjuvant therapy for pain management in newborns undergoing minor painful procedures. It is a prospective study and we plan to enroll 200 healthy full term newborns undergoing minor procedures (heel pricks). They will be randomly assigned to either control or music group. Those in music group will receive recorded Mozart lullaby music. Pain will be assessed using NIPS (Neonatal Infant Pain Scale) scoring tool. The potential benefit of the study would be identifying music a safe and efficient adjuvant therapy for pain management in newborns.