Creative Music Therapy with Premature Infants and Their Parents: A Mixed-Method Pilot Study on Parents’ Anxiety, Stress and Depressive Symptoms and Parent–Infant Attachment

Creative Music Therapy with Premature Infants and Their Parents: A Mixed-Method Pilot Study on Parents’ Anxiety, Stress and Depressive Symptoms and Parent–Infant Attachment

Premature birth is stressful for infants and parents and can adversely affect the parent–infant dyad. This mixed-methods pilot study evaluates whether creative music therapy (CMT) can alleviate anxiety, stress, and depressive symptoms in parents and support the bonding process with their infant. Six...

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Main Authors: Selina M. Kehl, Pearl La Marca-Ghaemmaghami, Marina Haller, Elisabeth Pichler-Stachl, Hans Ulrich Bucher, Dirk Bassler, Friederike B. Haslbeck
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: MDPI AG 2021-12-01
Series:International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health
Subjects:
music therapy
NICU
prematurity
postnatal anxiety
postnatal stress
attachment
Online Access:https://www.mdpi.com/1660-4601/18/1/265

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