Music interventions to improve women’s health outcomes in the preconception, antepartum, intrapartum, and postpartum periods: An overview of reviews

Meighan Mary; Briana Kramer; Kirantheja Daggula; Anqi He; Sarah Clifford; Elizabeth Stierman; Kathryn Spielman; Porcia Manandhar; Andreea A. Creanga

doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0339337

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Music interventions to improve women’s health outcomes in the preconception, antepartum, intrapartum, and postpartum periods: An overview of reviews

Meighan Mary ,

Roles Data curation, Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Project administration, Supervision, Validation, Visualization, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing, Conceptualization

* E-mail: mmary1@jhu.edu

Affiliations IMPROVE Maternal Health Data Innovation and Coordination Hub, Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, Baltimore, Maryland, United States of America, International Center for Maternal and Newborn Health, Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, Baltimore, Maryland, United States of America, International Health Department, Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, Baltimore Maryland, United States of America

https://orcid.org/0000-0003-1013-366X

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Briana Kramer,

Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

Affiliations IMPROVE Maternal Health Data Innovation and Coordination Hub, Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, Baltimore, Maryland, United States of America, International Health Department, Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, Baltimore Maryland, United States of America
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Kirantheja Daggula,

Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Writing – review & editing

Affiliations IMPROVE Maternal Health Data Innovation and Coordination Hub, Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, Baltimore, Maryland, United States of America, International Health Department, Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, Baltimore Maryland, United States of America

https://orcid.org/0009-0005-6263-1443

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Anqi He,

Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Writing – review & editing

Affiliations IMPROVE Maternal Health Data Innovation and Coordination Hub, Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, Baltimore, Maryland, United States of America, International Health Department, Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, Baltimore Maryland, United States of America
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Sarah Clifford,

Roles Writing – review & editing, Conceptualization

Affiliations IMPROVE Maternal Health Data Innovation and Coordination Hub, Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, Baltimore, Maryland, United States of America, International Health Department, Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, Baltimore Maryland, United States of America

https://orcid.org/0009-0007-9533-4685

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Elizabeth Stierman,

Roles Writing – review & editing, Conceptualization

Affiliations IMPROVE Maternal Health Data Innovation and Coordination Hub, Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, Baltimore, Maryland, United States of America, International Center for Maternal and Newborn Health, Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, Baltimore, Maryland, United States of America, International Health Department, Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, Baltimore Maryland, United States of America
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Kathryn Spielman,

Roles Conceptualization, Writing – review & editing

Affiliations IMPROVE Maternal Health Data Innovation and Coordination Hub, Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, Baltimore, Maryland, United States of America, International Health Department, Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, Baltimore Maryland, United States of America
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Porcia Manandhar,

Roles Conceptualization, Writing – review & editing

Affiliations IMPROVE Maternal Health Data Innovation and Coordination Hub, Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, Baltimore, Maryland, United States of America, International Health Department, Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, Baltimore Maryland, United States of America
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Andreea A. Creanga

Roles Funding acquisition, Methodology, Writing – review & editing, Conceptualization, Data curation

Affiliations IMPROVE Maternal Health Data Innovation and Coordination Hub, Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, Baltimore, Maryland, United States of America, International Center for Maternal and Newborn Health, Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, Baltimore, Maryland, United States of America, International Health Department, Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, Baltimore Maryland, United States of America, Department of Gynecology and Obstetrics, Johns Hopkins School of Medicine, Baltimore, Maryland, United States of America
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Music interventions to improve women’s health outcomes in the preconception, antepartum, intrapartum, and postpartum periods: An overview of reviews

Meighan Mary,
Briana Kramer,
Kirantheja Daggula,
Anqi He,
Sarah Clifford,
Elizabeth Stierman,
Kathryn Spielman,
Porcia Manandhar,
Andreea A. Creanga

Published: February 18, 2026
https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0339337

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