Motor Responses and Weight Gaining in Neonates through Use of Two Methods of Earmuff and Receiving Silence in NICU

Table 2

Mean and SD of motor responses in various time points in three groups in the morning and afternoon.

	Motor responses	Earmuff group		Silent group		Control group
		Mean	SD	Mean	SD	Mean	SD
Morning	BI	33	19.3	34.5	25.2	33.5	16.6	0.6
	DI	11.1	6.2	29.5	20.1	37	13.2	<0.000
	IAI	17.5	17.1	35.6	22.8	36.7	15	0.07
	OHAI	22.4	12.5	40.03	24.3	33.7	12.5	0.3
		0.02		0.000		0.000
Afternoon	BI	29.3	18.6	27.3	14.6	25	10.8	0.6
	DI	9.8	7.4	25	10.8	25	10.8	<0.000
	IAI	17.6	3.6	22.6	15.8	22.8	15.8	0.05
	OHAI	19.9	15.7	23.03	13.3	23.3	13.3	0.3
				0.4		0.000

One-way ANOVA.
^**Repeated measures ANOVA.
BI: before intervention, DI: during intervention, and IAI: immediately after intervention.
OHAI: one hr after intervention.