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Parental Perception of Vocal Contact with Preterm Infants: Communicative Musicality in the Neonatal Intensive Care Unit.

Maria Grazia Monaci
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Maya Gratier
Colwyn Trevarthen
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Didier Grandjean
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Manuela Filippa
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Résumé

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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hal-03352104 , version 1 (22-09-2021)

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Maria Grazia Monaci, Maya Gratier, Colwyn Trevarthen, Didier Grandjean, Pierre Kuhn, et al.. Parental Perception of Vocal Contact with Preterm Infants: Communicative Musicality in the Neonatal Intensive Care Unit.. Children, 2021, 8 (6), ⟨10.3390/children8060513⟩. ⟨hal-03352104⟩
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