Establishment of a clinical psychologically-based extremely early intervention model for low birth weight infants and their parents

2014 Fiscal Year Final Research Report

• Project/Area Number: 24330198
• Research Category: Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research (B)
• Allocation Type: Partial Multi-year Fund
• Section: 一般
• Research Field: Clinical psychology
• Research Institution: Nagoya University
• Principal Investigator: NAGATA Masako 名古屋大学, 発達心理精神科学教育研究センター, 准教授 (20467260)
• Co-Investigator(Renkei-kenkyūsha): 大城 昌平 聖隷クリストファー大学, リハビリテーション学部, 教授 (90387506) ; 側島 久典 埼玉医科大学, 総合医療センター新生児科, 教授 (90201590)
• Project Period (FY): 2012-04-01 – 2015-03-31
• Keywords: 低出生体重児 / 母子相互作用 / 臨床心理学的支援

Outline of Final Research Achievements

To discuss what extremely early intervention for low birth weight infants should be, interaction between mothers and their low birth weight infants was investigated before discharge from NICU and at 1.5 months of corrected age and compared with interaction between mothers and their full-term infants.The Brazelton Neonatal Behavioral Assessment Scale (NBAS) was used to examine the infants in the presence of mothers before discharge from NICU. This demonstrated that the NBAS served as a tool effective for sharing with mothers the knowledge that infants are very social individuals. At a corrected age of 1.5 months, extremely low birth weight infants scarcely showed a neutral expression when behaving toward their mothers, and it was found that the interaction initiated by the infants did not last. The outcome of those investigations was compiled into an educational DVD for training the medical staff in order to support the mother-infant interaction.

Free Research Field

臨床心理学