Music Therapy and the Advancement of Family-Centred Care in the Neonatal Intensive Care Unit: A Philosophical Inquiry
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Abstract
The purpose of this philosophical inquiry was to understand and articulate the barriers to Family-Centred Care (FCC) implementation, to connect Neonatal Intensive Care Unit Music Therapy (NICU MT) to the principles of FCC, and to position music therapy as a unique and important contributor to the advancement of FCC principles within the Canadian NICU context. Since the inception of NICU MT as an area of specialization in the 1990’s, the shift towards FCC perspectives has been reflected in music therapy research, with significant outcomes for both improved physical parameters of fragile infants and the reduced anxiety and stress of parents. While NICU MT alignment with a FCC approach has become common, there has been limited explicit discourse on this alignment. This inquiry provides a comprehensive alignment of NICU MT’s research and approaches with the four FCC principles of Dignity and Respect, Information Sharing, Participation, and Collaboration, while articulating some of the systemic barriers that have impeded the full implementation of FCC. Canada’s unique health care system, in combination with the burgeoning NICU MT field worldwide, sets the stage for new and innovative models of care that are truly family centred.
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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) | 0.001 | 0.000 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.001 | 0.001 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.001 | 0.001 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Open science | 0.001 | 0.000 |
| Research integrity | 0.000 | 0.002 |
| 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".