Practices and Perspectives of Music Therapists Working With Infants in Canadian Neonatal Intensive Care Units
Bibliographic record
Abstract
This qualitative descriptive research investigated the current practices and perspectives of certified music therapists (MTA) working in neonatal intensive care units (NICUs) in Canadian hospitals. The Canadian context is important to consider because of this country’s unique healthcare landscape, and because the use of NICU music therapy in Canada is relatively new. Three individual interviews were recorded, transcribed, and analyzed according to qualitative content analysis procedures. Results include nine overarching categories containing multiple themes. These categories include: weekly workload, referrals, assessment, evaluation, music therapy interventions, challenges of the job, rewards of the job, evolution of NICU music therapy practices, and recommendations for advancing Canadian music therapy practices. Implications for the music therapy profession, practice and continuing education, as well as implications for Canadian hospitals and recommendations for research are presented. Limitations of the study are identified. It is the researcher’s hope that this study will help to promote the development of Canadian NICU music therapy programs, thus increasing Canadians’ access to this type of innovative service.
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How this classification was reachedexpand
Full frame distilled prediction
Teacher imitationNot calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. Learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and 10,348 direct Gemma labels. Candidate is the union of thresholded teacher heads; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels or direct frontier model labels.
Codex and Gemma teacher scores by category
| Category | Codex | Gemma |
|---|---|---|
| Metaresearch | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.002 | 0.001 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Open science | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Research integrity | 0.000 | 0.001 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
Machine scores (provisional)
The two teacher heads of the student model, read on this work. A score orders the frame for review; it never asserts a category, and the validation status ships verbatim with every row.
Baseline scores from an immature model (maturity gate not passed, 7 training rounds). Scores rank; they never assert a category.
score_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from itClassification
machine, unvalidatedMachine predicted; a candidate call from one teacher head, not a consensus.
How this classification was reached, model by model and score by score, is at the end of the page under "How this classification was reached".