Parental Perception of Vocal Contact with Preterm Infants: Communicative Musicality in the Neonatal Intensive Care Unit
In this study, we evaluate mothers’ subjective experience of speaking and singing to their infants while they are in their incubators. We also discuss the relevance of the theoretical framework of Communicative Musicality for identifying the underlying mechanisms that may help explain its beneficial...
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| author | Maria Grazia Monaci Maya Gratier Colwyn Trevarthen Didier Grandjean Pierre Kuhn Manuela Filippa |
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| description | In this study, we evaluate mothers’ subjective experience of speaking and singing to their infants while they are in their incubators. We also discuss the relevance of the theoretical framework of Communicative Musicality for identifying the underlying mechanisms that may help explain its beneficial effects, both for parents and infants. Nineteen mothers talked and sung to their stable preterm infants in the incubators, for 5 min each, in three sessions over a period of 6 days. After each session, mothers were asked to assess in a self-report questionnaire the ease and the effectiveness of addressing their infants by speaking and singing and their prior musical experience. Perceived ease and effectiveness in communication were found to increase progressively from one session to the next. Mothers rated the speech to be increasingly more effective. This intuitive mean of interaction between parents and infants could be encouraged and supported by the nurses and the medical staff. Furthermore, individual musical experience affects perceived ease of communicating vocally with infants after a premature birth and should thus be encouraged during pregnancy. |
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| spelling | doaj.art-0802a5e209da429586dfbd46fef1ce462023-11-22T00:29:54ZengMDPI AGChildren2227-90672021-06-018651310.3390/children8060513Parental Perception of Vocal Contact with Preterm Infants: Communicative Musicality in the Neonatal Intensive Care UnitMaria Grazia Monaci0Maya Gratier1Colwyn Trevarthen2Didier Grandjean3Pierre Kuhn4Manuela Filippa5Department of Social and Human Sciences, University of Valle d’Aosta, 11100 Aosta, ItalyLaboratoire Ethologie Cognition Développement, UPL, Université Paris Nanterre, 92000 Nanterre, FranceSchool of Psychology, University of Edinburgh, Edinburgh EH8 9YL, UKSwiss Center for Affective Sciences, Neuroscience of Emotion and Affective Dynamics, Department of Psychology, Faculty of Psychology and Educational Sciences, University of Geneva, 1205 Geneva, SwitzerlandCentre Hospitalier, Service de Médecine et Réanimation Néonatale, Hôpital de Hautepierre, Universitaire de Strasbourg, 67081 Strasbourg, FranceDepartment of Social and Human Sciences, University of Valle d’Aosta, 11100 Aosta, ItalyIn this study, we evaluate mothers’ subjective experience of speaking and singing to their infants while they are in their incubators. We also discuss the relevance of the theoretical framework of Communicative Musicality for identifying the underlying mechanisms that may help explain its beneficial effects, both for parents and infants. Nineteen mothers talked and sung to their stable preterm infants in the incubators, for 5 min each, in three sessions over a period of 6 days. After each session, mothers were asked to assess in a self-report questionnaire the ease and the effectiveness of addressing their infants by speaking and singing and their prior musical experience. Perceived ease and effectiveness in communication were found to increase progressively from one session to the next. Mothers rated the speech to be increasingly more effective. This intuitive mean of interaction between parents and infants could be encouraged and supported by the nurses and the medical staff. Furthermore, individual musical experience affects perceived ease of communicating vocally with infants after a premature birth and should thus be encouraged during pregnancy.https://www.mdpi.com/2227-9067/8/6/513preterm infantsmaternal voiceearly intervention |
| spellingShingle | Maria Grazia Monaci Maya Gratier Colwyn Trevarthen Didier Grandjean Pierre Kuhn Manuela Filippa Parental Perception of Vocal Contact with Preterm Infants: Communicative Musicality in the Neonatal Intensive Care Unit Children preterm infants maternal voice early intervention |
| title | Parental Perception of Vocal Contact with Preterm Infants: Communicative Musicality in the Neonatal Intensive Care Unit |
| title_full | Parental Perception of Vocal Contact with Preterm Infants: Communicative Musicality in the Neonatal Intensive Care Unit |
| title_fullStr | Parental Perception of Vocal Contact with Preterm Infants: Communicative Musicality in the Neonatal Intensive Care Unit |
| title_full_unstemmed | Parental Perception of Vocal Contact with Preterm Infants: Communicative Musicality in the Neonatal Intensive Care Unit |
| title_short | Parental Perception of Vocal Contact with Preterm Infants: Communicative Musicality in the Neonatal Intensive Care Unit |
| title_sort | parental perception of vocal contact with preterm infants communicative musicality in the neonatal intensive care unit |
| topic | preterm infants maternal voice early intervention |
| url | https://www.mdpi.com/2227-9067/8/6/513 |
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