MSc, Occupational Therapy, Faculty of the Health Sciences, University of the Witwatersrand / This study investigated the sensory processing of premature infants between
7-12 months of age at Chris Hani Baragwanath Hospital using the
standardised Infant/Toddler Sensory Profile. The design of research that was
primarily utilised in this study was quantitative, cross sectional, descriptive
research. Results indicated that 50% of all the premature infants were found
to be low threshold infants, and tended to be over responsive to auditory,
visual and tactile sensory stimuli. The Sensory Profiles of infants who
underwent different methods of neonatal care including kangaroo mother care
(KMC), where mothers were involved in a fulltime twenty-four hour KMC
programme, and those who received mainly conventional care (CC) were
compared. The only score that differed significantly between infants receiving
different types of care was tactile processing, with the CC infants having more
typical tactile processing scores. These findings were contrary to other KMC
research, which may have been affected by the reliability of using this
measure with this study sample and the small sample size of infants who
received CC.
| Identifer | oai:union.ndltd.org:netd.ac.za/oai:union.ndltd.org:wits/oai:wiredspace.wits.ac.za:10539/9384 |
| Date | 06 April 2011 |
| Creators | Tudor, Shirley Berniece |
| Source Sets | South African National ETD Portal |
| Language | English |
| Detected Language | English |
| Type | Thesis |
| Format | application/pdf, application/pdf |
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