ReviewActa paediatrica (Oslo, Norway : 1992)2025
Description and evidence on the supporting and enhancing neonatal intensive care unit sensory experiences (SENSE) program.
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- The MIND Randomized Controlled Trial: An Intervention to Improve Neural Speech Processing and 2-Year Language Outcomes of Infants Born Preterm.The Journal of pediatrics · 2026Trial
- Translational Initiative to Minimize Childhood Hemiparesis After Asymmetrical Perinatal Brain Injury.Bioengineering (Basel, Switzerland) · 2026Article
- Triangulating evidence, expertise, and maternal experience to design a gestational age-specific stimulation protocol for preterm infants in indian neonatal intensive care units.Journal of health, population, and nutrition · 2026Article
- The state of infant massage use in neonatal intensive care units.Journal of perinatology : official journal of the California Perinatal Association · 2026Article
- Influence of Sensory Needs on Sleep and Neurodevelopmental Care in At-Risk Neonates.Children (Basel, Switzerland) · 2025Review
- Training to increase parental participation in the care of infants in neonatal units.The Cochrane database of systematic reviews · 2025Article
- Description and evidence on the supporting and enhancing neonatal intensive care unit sensory experiences (SENSE) program.Acta paediatrica (Oslo, Norway : 1992) · 2025Review
- Enhancing the feeding journey of the preterm infant in the NICU: the STAmmi VICINO pathway as a model of integrated and individualized neurodevelopmental care.Frontiers in public health · 2025Article
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Abstract
aimTo describe the supporting and enhancing neonatal intensive care unit (NICU) sensory experiences (SENSE) program, associated research and opportunities for further study.
methodsA review of current materials on SENSE program implementation, publications related to SENSE development, and research on program implementation and patient outcomes was conducted to describe the SENSE program and its associated research.
resultsThe SENSE program combines structured, evidence-based, multisensory interventions with parent engagement in order to optimise outcomes in the complex NICU environment. Through a stepwise and scientific process, the SENSE program was developed to include specific doses and targeted timing (based on the infant's postmenstrual age, PMA) of evidence-based interventions such as massage, auditory exposure, rocking, holding and skin-to-skin care for parents to provide their infants each day of NICU hospitalisation. It is adapted in context of concurrent medical interventions, infant behavioural responses, as well as NICU culture. The program is feasible to implement, acceptable to staff, and related to infants receiving more developmentally appropriate sensory exposures. Adaptations related to NICU culture and parent involvement have been reported. Research has identified relationships of the SENSE program to improved parent confidence, neurobehaviour and feeding at term age as well as improved communication 1 year of age.
conclusionThe literature related to the SENSE program is promising, but more research on efficacy and implementation is needed.
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