Abstract:
Premature infants have immature body functions. One of the body functions is temperature regulation.
Commonly premature infants get hypothermia. Mozart classical music therapy is a kind of therapeutic
music which can help healing process in premature infants. This study aimed to determine the
effectiveness of Mozart Classical Music Therapy for premature infants’s body temperature in
Perinatology Ward Teluk Kuantan General Hospital. The design of this study was quasy experiment.
The number of samples in this study were 30 premature infants which had selected through purposive
sampling method and met inclusion criterias. Then the samples were grouped into intervention and
control group which each group consist of 15 infants. Intervention group was given Mozart Classical
Music therapy during 15 minutes each day for 7 days. This study was analysed with t-test. The result
of study showed that infant’s body temperature in intervention group before getting intervention
(36,46 ± 0,192) and after (36,88 ± 0,237) with p value 0,000 < 0,05. It means there was difference
body temperature before and after getting intervention. Control group who didn’t get intervention had
the result before (36,593 ± 0,26) and after (36,40 ± 0,12) with p value 0,119 > 0,05. It means that
there was no difference body temperature in control group. Unpaired t test was used to know the
difference of premature infant’s body temperature beetwen intervention and control group. This test
showed that in intervention group (36,88 ± 0,237) and control group (36,40 ± 0,12) with p value 0,000
< 0,05. It means there was difference premature infant’s body temperature in intervention and control
group. The conclusion of this study was Mozart Classical Music Therapy was more effective to
stabilize premature infant’s body temperature so that can be suggested to perinatology nurse and
parents giving Mozart Classical Music as a therapy for caring premature infant’s body temperature.
