23.7. 1993 Vitoria-Gasteiz / Spain - World Federation of Music Therapy

To double-check our questionnaires, we handed them
out to a group constituted of mothers and their partners
who had participated in a course for childbirth
analogous to the one in which the sound activities have
been experienced. Therefore, we took into
consideration a sample constituted of two distinct
groups: Intervention Group (I), and Control Group (C).
To the two groups of pregnant mothers we associated
the groups of their partners, who took part in two
meetings during each course.
3.2. The following elements have been drawn from the
comparison of the data gathered from the two
questionnaires. 90% of the people judged positively the
course and 93,3% (versus 80% in C) deemed usefulthe
indications they received for a fulfilling experience
during the last months of pregnancy. 73,3% expressed
a positiveopinion on the course for labour, and 86,7%
go for childbearing (against 50% of the C group) and for
the period after the child birth 66,7% (versus 30% of the
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C group). Finally, 86,7% favoured the involvement of
their partners during the meetings (against 60%- in C
group). Finally, 86,7,% declared that the information
received during the course favoured the relationship
with the child during pregnancy.
This analysis shows that some mothers have
been stimulated by the meetings to speak more often
with the child during the last months of pregnancy, and
that in some cases they have also decided to sing. All
the mothers stated that they had been listening to music
during the last period of pregnancy, predominantly to
classical or popular music and that they hade
increasingly chosen the music they wanted to listen to,
much more than they had done before starting the
course. 86,7{7o of the mothers stated that, during
labour, they made use of the suggestions received
during the course, and 40% of these was able to keep
breathing under control through the use of voice. Our
suggestions also favoured communication during early