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Clinical Practice Protocol of Creative Music Therapy for Preterm Infants and Their Parents in the Neonatal Intensive Care Unit
Published on: January 7, 2020
Music Therapy in the Neonatal Intensive Care Unit: A Center's Experience with Program Development, Implementation,
Carmina Erdei1,2, Kim Schlesinger1, Meredith R Pizzi1
1Department of Pediatrics, Division of Newborn Medicine, Brigham and Women's Hospital, 75 Francis St, Boston, MA 02115, USA.
Background:
The role of music in the NICU continues to evolve, with recent studies documenting the positive impact of music therapy for hospitalized infants and families. With many potential benefits and no substantial adverse effects reported to date in medically stable infants, we aimed to create a clinical guideline to integrate this therapy into the NICU operations.
Methods:
we launched and implemented a pilot music therapy clinical program within a subunit of a level-III NICU, building upon available evidence.
Results:
In this report, we describe our experience with initial program development and early outcomes in terms of population served, frequency of music therapy, and therapeutic modalities employed to implement service delivery.
Conclusion:
we highlight the importance of establishing practices that are aligned with currently available data and recommendations, in order to facilitate delivery of a safe, evidence-based, meaningful therapeutic experience with monitoring of preliminary effects of the therapy on all those involved in the experience.
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