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Music therapy modulates mothers’ perception of their preterm infants
Premature birth imposes considerable challenges on the preterm infant, but also challenges the mother, who may not yet be prepared for motherhood and encounter psychological stress during the post-partum period. This secondary analysis of a prospective randomized controlled trial (RCT) aimed to inve...
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Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC10620800/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/37928582 http://dx.doi.org/10.3389/fpsyg.2023.1231741 |
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author | Kobus, Susann Diezel, Marlis Dewan, Monia Vanessa Huening, Britta Dathe, Anne-Kathrin Marschik, Peter B. Felderhoff-Mueser, Ursula Bruns, Nora |
author_facet | Kobus, Susann Diezel, Marlis Dewan, Monia Vanessa Huening, Britta Dathe, Anne-Kathrin Marschik, Peter B. Felderhoff-Mueser, Ursula Bruns, Nora |
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description | Premature birth imposes considerable challenges on the preterm infant, but also challenges the mother, who may not yet be prepared for motherhood and encounter psychological stress during the post-partum period. This secondary analysis of a prospective randomized controlled trial (RCT) aimed to investigate how mothers perceive their preterm infants. We surveyed 33 mothers of preterm infants born before 32 weeks of gestation, who were participating in an RCT on music therapy. We employed the neonatal perception inventory (NPI), an instrument designed to assess the mother’s perception and expectations regarding her infant immediately after birth. Infants were randomly assigned to either standard care (control group) or standard care plus music therapy (intervention group). Eighteen mothers from the intervention group participated in the survey (mean age 34.1 ± 4.6 years) and 15 mothers from the control group (mean age 29.6 ± 4.2 years). At the time of the infant’s hospital discharge, mothers rated their expectations of how they felt a baby should behave (NPI I) and how they perceived their own infant (NPI II). The NPI score difference was calculated by subtracting the NPI II from the NPI I. Mean NPI I scores were comparable between both groups, but NPI II scores in the intervention group were better [18.0, 95% confidence interval (CI) 16.6–19.4] than in the control group (19.1, 95% CI 18.0–20.3). The relative probability of mothers rating their own baby as better than average was 1.94 (95% CI 1.00–3.79) for mothers whose infants received music therapy. These findings suggest that music therapy in the neonatal intensive care unit can positively influence mothers’ perception of their hospitalized preterm infant. |
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spelling | pubmed-106208002023-11-03 Music therapy modulates mothers’ perception of their preterm infants Kobus, Susann Diezel, Marlis Dewan, Monia Vanessa Huening, Britta Dathe, Anne-Kathrin Marschik, Peter B. Felderhoff-Mueser, Ursula Bruns, Nora Front Psychol Psychology Premature birth imposes considerable challenges on the preterm infant, but also challenges the mother, who may not yet be prepared for motherhood and encounter psychological stress during the post-partum period. This secondary analysis of a prospective randomized controlled trial (RCT) aimed to investigate how mothers perceive their preterm infants. We surveyed 33 mothers of preterm infants born before 32 weeks of gestation, who were participating in an RCT on music therapy. We employed the neonatal perception inventory (NPI), an instrument designed to assess the mother’s perception and expectations regarding her infant immediately after birth. Infants were randomly assigned to either standard care (control group) or standard care plus music therapy (intervention group). Eighteen mothers from the intervention group participated in the survey (mean age 34.1 ± 4.6 years) and 15 mothers from the control group (mean age 29.6 ± 4.2 years). At the time of the infant’s hospital discharge, mothers rated their expectations of how they felt a baby should behave (NPI I) and how they perceived their own infant (NPI II). The NPI score difference was calculated by subtracting the NPI II from the NPI I. Mean NPI I scores were comparable between both groups, but NPI II scores in the intervention group were better [18.0, 95% confidence interval (CI) 16.6–19.4] than in the control group (19.1, 95% CI 18.0–20.3). The relative probability of mothers rating their own baby as better than average was 1.94 (95% CI 1.00–3.79) for mothers whose infants received music therapy. These findings suggest that music therapy in the neonatal intensive care unit can positively influence mothers’ perception of their hospitalized preterm infant. Frontiers Media S.A. 2023-10-19 /pmc/articles/PMC10620800/ /pubmed/37928582 http://dx.doi.org/10.3389/fpsyg.2023.1231741 Text en Copyright © 2023 Kobus, Diezel, Dewan, Huening, Dathe, Marschik, Felderhoff-Mueser and Bruns. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (CC BY). The use, distribution or reproduction in other forums is permitted, provided the original author(s) and the copyright owner(s) are credited and that the original publication in this journal is cited, in accordance with accepted academic practice. No use, distribution or reproduction is permitted which does not comply with these terms. |
spellingShingle | Psychology Kobus, Susann Diezel, Marlis Dewan, Monia Vanessa Huening, Britta Dathe, Anne-Kathrin Marschik, Peter B. Felderhoff-Mueser, Ursula Bruns, Nora Music therapy modulates mothers’ perception of their preterm infants |
title | Music therapy modulates mothers’ perception of their preterm infants |
title_full | Music therapy modulates mothers’ perception of their preterm infants |
title_fullStr | Music therapy modulates mothers’ perception of their preterm infants |
title_full_unstemmed | Music therapy modulates mothers’ perception of their preterm infants |
title_short | Music therapy modulates mothers’ perception of their preterm infants |
title_sort | music therapy modulates mothers’ perception of their preterm infants |
topic | Psychology |
url | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC10620800/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/37928582 http://dx.doi.org/10.3389/fpsyg.2023.1231741 |
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