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Psychosomatic Medicine 28:316-322 (1966)
© 1966 American Psychosomatic Society

The Effectiveness of Various Soothing Techniques on Human Neonates

BEVERLY BIRNS PH.D.1, MARION BLANK PH.D.1, and WAGNER H. BRIDGER M.D.1

1 Department of Psychiatry, ALbert Einstein College of Medicine, Yeshiva University, Bronx, N. Y.

In a study of the efficacy of soothing stimuli presented in different sensory modalities to human neonates, auditory, oral, vestibular, and thermal stimuli were compared and a nonstimulus control period was included.

Behavioral ratings and heart rate measurements indicated that the soothing stimuli were all effective as compared with the control period, but no one stimulus was more effective than any other. Neonates could be characterized by over-all differences in their ability to be soothed. On the test-retest data, infants were consistent both on measures of over-all soothability and in terms of the individual soothing agents which proved most effective.

Submitted on September 13, 1965




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