The effect of mother's whisper on preterm neonate's physiological parameters

Background and Favorable auditory stimulation improves the physiological function in the preterm neonates. Thus this study investigates the effect of mother's whisper on pretem neonate's physiological parameters.
This one group, pre-post-test clinical trial study was conducted in NICU of Mehr Hospital in Malayer, 1395. Thirty-six preterm neonates, gestational aged 32-37 weeks and birth aged 3-28 days, were selected by simple random sampling. The mother of each neonate talked with her own baby for ten minutes in three days with whispered voice. Arterial blood oxygen saturation (SpO2), heart rate (HR) and respiratory rate (RR) was measured three times, 5 minutes befor, 10 minutes within, 5 minutes after intervention in each day. Data was analyzed with SPSS 22, and descriptive statistics such as mean, standard deviation and analysis of variance with repeated measures and toki multiple comparisons tests. Confidence level was 0.95.
The mean SpO2, RR and HR values were significantly difference between three times of measurement in each day (P The live whisper of own mother improves the physiological parameters of the preterm neonate. SpO2 increased, HR and RR decreased. Therefore, in daily nursing care planning, the nurses can give hours to the mothers that they talk with their babies.