The Sensory Profile in Newborns with a History of Premature Birth and Hospitalization in the Neonatal Intensive Care Unit

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1 Assistant Professor, Department of Occupational Therapy, School of Rehabilitation, Shahid Beheshti University of Medical Sciences, Tehran, Iran

2 Assistant Professor, Department of Occupational Therapy, School of Rehabilitation, Shiraz University of Medical Sciences, Shiraz, Iran

3 Rehabilitation Research Center, Department of Occupational Therapy, School of Rehabilitation, Iran University of Medical Sciences, Tehran, Iran

4 Assistant Professor, Neonatal-Perinatal Medicine, Department of Pediatrics, School of Medicine, Neonatal Research Center, Shiraz University of Medical Sciences, Shiraz, Iran

Abstract

Background: The study was designed to identify influential factors on sensory processing patterns and describe the pattern in neonates from birth to 6-month-old with premature birth.
Methods: In a cross-sectional study in 2021, 79 neonates from birth to 6 months (corrected age) who were hospitalized for a few days to 1 month, were recruited by the simple sampling method. Their sensory processing patterns were evaluated by sensory profile2-birth-to 6 months with 6 sub-scales of general, auditory, visual, and tactile, movement; and oral processing in 25 questions. The validity and reliability of the sensory profile were (0.95) and (0.72-0.95).
Findings: The Mean of the total score (52.6 ± 19.08) indicated that 54.4% of the participants exhibited abnormal sensory processing patterns. There was a significant relationship between sensory processing and sensory patterns with gestational age, birth weight, chronological age, and length of stay in the care unit. Tactile processing, patterns was significantly different between neonates, according to the time of hospitalization less than 1 week and more than 2 weeks. There are no significant differences between sensory processing patterns and gender, gestational age, and birth weight. The mean of Auditory, tactile and oral processing was different between the
2 groups of infants; less than 1-month chronological age and more than 1-month age. The total score of sensory profiles showed significant differences between infants with gestational age less than 32 weeks and more than
32 weeks.
Conclusion: The length of stay Infants was exposed to disadvantageous sensory stimulation for a long time which contribute to early development.

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Journal of Isfahan Medical School
Volume 41, Issue 719
3rd Week, July
July and August 2023
Pages 346-353

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  • Receive Date: 31 August 2022
  • Accept Date: 20 May 2023

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