Parental singing during kangaroo care: parents' experiences of singing to their preterm infant in the NICU.

ABSTRACT:

Introduction

Singing fosters emotional connections, attachment, bonding, and language development in infants. Prematurely born infants, however, are at risk of missing this vital communication, impacting neurodevelopment and family wellbeing, especially during prolonged hospital stays. Kangaroo care provides physiological and emotional support, while Creative Music Therapy (CMT) has demonstrated positive effects on neurodevelopment, parental wellbeing, and attachment. The Singing Kangaroo project, a Swedish-Finnish multi-center randomized controlled trial (RCT), investigated the impact of parental singing during kangaroo care. This qualitative follow-up study explores these findings through the lens of Antonovsky's Sense of Coherence (SOC) model.

Method

Semi-structured inter

SUBMITTER: Hugoson P 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC11832525 | biostudies-literature | 2025

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature