The value of music for hospitalized infants.
Infants are very responsive to stimuli and may be even more vulnerable to the adverse effects of hospitalization than older children. Play techniques are effective in helping older children cope with the emotional effects of hospitalization; however their potential may be limited with small infants. Music therapy could offer a more direct and effective means of constructive interaction with this easily overlooked and underestimated age group. This paper reviews the results of a three-month trial of music therapy in an infant ward at the Izaak Walton Killam Hospital for Children, Halifax, Nova Scotia.
D002673:Child, Hospitalized / Q000523:psychology*; D006744:Hospital Bed Capacity, 100 to 299; D006801:Humans; D007223:Infant; D007231:Infant, Newborn; D009147:Music Therapy; D009674:Nova Scotia