Family-centered music therapy-Empowering premature infants and their primary caregivers through music: Results of a pilot study.

ABSTRACT:

Background

In Neonatal Intensive Care Units (NICUs) premature infants are exposed to various acoustic, environmental and emotional stressors which have a negative impact on their development and the mental health of their parents. Family-centred music therapy bears the potential to positively influence these stressors. The few existing studies indicate that interactive live-improvised music therapy interventions both reduce parental stress factors and support preterm infants' development.

Methods

The present randomized controlled longitudinal study (RCT) with very low and extremely low birth weight infants (born <30+0 weeks of gestation) and their parents analyzed the influence of music therapy on both the physiological development of premature infants and parental stress fa

SUBMITTER: Menke BM 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC8121291 | biostudies-literature | 2021

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature