Föräldrar – en smärtlindrande resurs i svensk neonatalvård. Familjecentrerad musikterapi som stöd vid provtagning på nyfödda

Abstract

Parents’ involvement during painful procedures is considered a critical first step in improving neonatal pain practices. Music therapy provides a means through which parents can learn to use parent-delivered pain-relieving interventions. Parents’ infant-directed singing is a relationship-based communication tool in regulating the infant’s state and arousal levels and is therefore suitable also during painful procedures. Neonatal pain research is an interdisciplinary field where music therapy has just started to publish results. This article presents “The Nordic neonatal music therapy pain management strategy”, which is a family integrated biopsychosocial and resource-oriented theoretical and practical model. With this strategy, Ullsten adapts Ghetti’s “Working model of music therapy as procedural support” to illustrate the theoretical underpinnings of a model in which parents assume primary caregiving roles during the provision of procedural support.