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Research Article

Premature Triadic Music Therapy (PT-MT) for babies and their parents: a pilot study

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Pages 193-212 | Received 18 Nov 2020, Accepted 06 Sep 2021, Published online: 14 Sep 2021
 

ABSTRACT

Objective

We aim to test the feasibility and effectiveness of Premature Triadic Music Therapy (PT-MT) in the premature baby unit.

Methods

The design was a clinical pre-test-post-test trial with a convenience sample. Inclusion criteria were a gestational age higher than 28 weeks for preterm infants and the absence of shock or extreme distress for parents. Six preterm children (with a gestational age of 33 to 36 weeks) and their parents participated in the study. For the children, we measured heart rate, blood perfusion, and blood saturation at three different times (pre-PT-MT, during PT-MT, after PT-MT) as quantitative indicators of distress. Their parents completed the Edinburgh Postnatal Depression Scale (EPDS) before and after the PT-MT intervention.

Results

We found a statistically significant lower heart rate and a marginally statistically significant higher blood perfusion during PT-MT, as compared to the baseline. However, these changes were not present at the end of PT-MT. The parents’ EPDS scores were not statistically significantly lower at the post-test, although, the Medians of the scores did decrease.

Conclusions

PT-MT is a promising intervention for the reduction of distress in both parents and children. Further studies should include a higher number of sessions and participants.

Disclosure statement

The authors report no conflict of interest.

Data availability statement

Upon a reasonable request, and for research purposes, the data are available on request from the corresponding author.

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Italy.

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