ArticleScientific reports2016
Sound Interferes with the Early Tactile Manual Abilities of Preterm Infants.
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- Acoustic conditioning of the neonatal incubator compartment: Improvement proposal.Frontiers in pediatrics · 2022Article
- The Soundscape of Neonatal Intensive Care: A Mixed-Methods Study of the Parents' Experience.Children (Basel, Switzerland) · 2021Article
- Influence of the NICU on the Acoustic Isolation of a Neonatal Incubator.Frontiers in pediatrics · 2020Article
- Health Care Professionals' Perceptions about Sensory-Based Interventions in the NICU.American journal of perinatology · 2019Article
- Neurologic Consequences of Preterm Birth.Current neurology and neuroscience reports · 2018Review
- Associations Between Nurse-Guided Variables and Plasma Oxytocin Trajectories in Premature Infants During Initial Hospitalization.Advances in neonatal care : official journal of the National Association of Neonatal Nurses · 2018Article
- Neonatal intensive care unit phthalate exposure and preterm infant neurobehavioral performance.PloS one · 2018Article
- Noise in the neonatal intensive care unit: a new approach to examining acoustic events.Noise & healthArticle
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Abstract
Premature birth is a sudden change of the sensory environment of a newborn, while their senses are still in development, especially in the stressful and noisy environment of the NICU. The study aimed to evaluate the effect of noise on the early tactile manual abilities of preterm infants (between 29 and 35 weeks PCA). Infants were randomly assigned to one of the two conditions: Silence and Noise. For each condition, two phases were introduced: a habituation phase (repeated presentation of the same object, prism or cylinder), followed by a test phase (presentation of the familiar or a novel object). In the Silence condition, they received the tactile habituation and test phases: In the Noise condition, they went through the same phases, while an alarm sounded. Sixty-three preterm infants were included. They displayed a strong and effective ability to memorize tactile manual information and to detect the difference between two shape features, but this ability seems to be impaired by the concomitant exposure to an alarm sound. This study is the first to highlight the effect of a negative stimulus on sensory functioning in premature infants. It reinforces the importance of developing environmental measures to lower the sound level in NICUs.
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