ArticleInternational journal of environmental research and public health2021
Parental Book-Reading to Preterm Born Infants in NICU: The Effects on Language Development in the First Two Years.
Article in International journal of environmental research and public health, 2021. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. It is linked to trial NCT05412524 (Impact of Reading on Endogenous Oxytocin System of Preterm Infants), which is not on this map. Cited by 14 papers.
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Impact of Reading on Endogenous Oxytocin System of Preterm Infants
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- Assessing the Impact of a NICU Book Cart on Staff and Caregiver Speech to Very Preterm Infants.medRxiv : the preprint server for health sciences · 2025Article
- The Shared Book Reading Corpus: An audiovisual collection of 44 multimodal caregiver-infant interactions.Scientific data · 2025Article
- Promoting language and literacy through shared book reading in the NICU: A scoping review.PloS one · 2025Article
- Strategies to support language development in neonatal intensive care unit: a narrative review.Clinical and experimental pediatrics · 2024Article
- Home Musical Activities Boost Premature Infants' Language Development.Children (Basel, Switzerland) · 2024Article
- Music and reading activities in early childhood associated with improved language development in preterm infants at 2-3 years of age.Frontiers in psychology · 2024Article
- Developmental care pathway for hospitalised infants with CHD: on behalf of the Cardiac Newborn Neuroprotective Network, a Special Interest Group of the Cardiac Neurodevelopmental Outcome Collaborative.Cardiology in the young · 2023Article
- Parental Distress and Affective Perception of Hospital Environment after a Pictorial Intervention in a Neonatal Intensive Care Unit.International journal of environmental research and public health · 2022Article
- Monitoring of Communication Precursors in Extremely Low Birth Weight (ELBW) Newborns by Video Analysis Method: Preliminary Results.Children (Basel, Switzerland) · 2022Article
- Early Neurodevelopmental Outcomes after Previable Preterm Prelabour Rupture of Membranes (pPPROM).Case reports in pediatrics · 2022Article
- A narrative review of the effect of parent-child shared reading in preterm infants.Frontiers in pediatrics · 2022Review
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Abstract
backgroundAfter preterm birth, infants are at high risk for delays in language development. A promising intervention to reduce this risk is represented by the exposure to parental voices through book-reading in Neonatal Intensive Care Units (NICU). This study investigated the possible advantages of book-reading to preterm neonates during their NICU stay on their subsequent language development.
methods100 families of preterm infants were recruited. The parents of 55 preterm infants (Reading Group) received a colored picture-book on NICU admission and were supported to read to their neonate as often as possible and to continue after hospital discharge. Forty-five infants (Control Group) were recruited before the beginning of the intervention. Infant language development was assessed with the Hearing and Language quotients of the Griffith Mental Development Scale at the corrected ages of 3, 6, 9, 12, 18 and 24 months.
resultsRegardless of group membership, Hearing and Language mean quotients decreased between 9 and 18 months; nevertheless, this decrease was considerably reduced in the Reading group, compared to the Control Group.
conclusionsReading in NICUs represents a suitable intervention that could positively influence language development and parent-infant relationships in preterm children. The study findings support its implementation as a preventive measure.
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