Infant massage as a stress management technique for parents of hospitalized extremely preterm infants

Author:

McCarty Dana12ORCID,Silver Rachel3,Quinn Lauren2,Dusing Stacey4,O'Shea Thomas Michael5

Affiliation:

1. Department of Health Sciences Division of Physical Therapy University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill Chapel Hill North Carolina USA

2. Department of Rehabilitation Services University of North Carolina Children's Hospital Chapel Hill North Carolina USA

3. Abilitations Children's Therapy and Wellness Center Knightdale North Carolina USA

4. Division of Biokinesiology and Physical Therapy University of Southern California Los Angeles California USA

5. Department of Pediatrics, Division of Neonatal‐Perinatal Medicine University of North Carolina Chapel Hill North Carolina USA

Abstract

AbstractMothers of infants born extremely preterm requiring prolonged medical intervention in the Neonatal Intensive Care Unit (NICU) are at high risk of developing stress. Parent‐administered infant massage is a well‐established, safe intervention for preterm infants with many developmental benefits, but the published literature has mostly examined its impact on infants and parents through self‐reported or observational measures of stress. The aim of this study was to measure salivary cortisol, a biomarker for stress, in extremely preterm infants and their mothers immediately pre and post parent‐administered infant massage in order to detect potential changes in physiologic stress. Twenty‐two mother‐infant dyads completed massage education with a physical or occupational therapist. All dyads provided salivary cortisol samples via buccal swab immediately pre‐ and post‐massage at the second session. Of mothers determined to be “cortisol responders” (15/22), salivary cortisol levels were lower after massage (pre‐minus post‐level: −26.47 ng/dL, [CI = −4.40, −48.53], p = .016, paired t‐test). Our primary findings include a clinically significant decrease (as measured by percent change) in maternal cortisol levels immediately post parent‐administered massage, indicating decreased physiological stress. Integration of infant massage into NICU clinical practice may support maternal mental health, but further powered studies are necessary to confirm findings.

Funder

National Center for Advancing Translational Sciences

National Institutes of Health

Publisher

Wiley

Subject

Psychiatry and Mental health,Developmental and Educational Psychology,Pediatrics, Perinatology and Child Health

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