Study Design
PREMATURE
Longitudinal Study of Music Therapy’s Effectiveness for Premature Infants and Their Caregivers (LongSTEP) was designed as a 2 × 2 factorial, multinational, pragmatic randomized clinical trial (RCT) evaluating longer-term effects of music therapy (MT) in neonatal intensive care unit (NICU) and after discharge on preterm infants and their caregivers until 12 months’ infant corrected age.