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Key Points. Music therapy is used as a treatment for the improvement of cognitive function in people with dementia. The intervention based on listening to music presents the greatest effect on patients with dementia followed by singing. Music therapy improved the quality of life of people with dementia.
May 31, 2021 · Whilst increasing happiness is a crucial aim in therapy, another distinguishing feature of direct music therapy is the capacity for music therapy delivered by a trained music therapist to also work with a whole range of emotions and feelings, which may also include pain and distress (Darnley-Smith, 2020). Verbal psychotherapy is not usually possible for people living with dementia to access ...
- Helen Odell-Miller
- 2021
- Study Selection
- Study Characteristics
- Intervention Characteristics
- Outcome Characteristics
- Risk of Bias
- Results of Individual Studies
The flowchart of the study selection process is presented in Fig. 1. The literature search identified a total of 144 records. After the exclusion of duplicate records and non-relevant abstracts, 57 studies were retained. After reviewing the full text, 49 studies were excluded according to our inclusion and exclusion criteria. In the end, a total of...
Characteristics of included studies are presented in Table 1. The final sample was composed of 8 RCTs, 4 studies were conducted in Europe (2 in France, 2 in Spain), 3 studies in Asia (2 in China, 1 in Japan), and one in the USA. All these studies were published in the English language in peer-reviewed journals. Included trials showed a total of 689...
Music therapy approach
Music therapy methods were heterogeneous across the included studies. In one study, the active music therapy approach used was singing with the played songs . Two other studies used the receptive (passive) music therapy approach which consists in listening to music and songs played on a CD player [31, 35]. The remaining five studies were based on a combination of both active and receptive music approaches [26, 29, 30, 34, 36].
Comparators
In four studies, music therapy intervention was compared to standard care [29, 30, 34,35,36], while in the four remaining studies, different interventions other than music therapy were used as comparators such as: watching nature videos , painting , cooking , and practicing meditation .
Application of the intervention
Only three trials were conducted by a music therapist [29, 34, 36], 1 trial was conducted by a professional choir conductor , 1 by musicians and the 3 remaining trials were conducted with facilitators with no musical expertise [26, 31, 35].
The included studies assessed different outcomes, but we focused on domains directly related to outcome inclusion criteria: global cognition, memory, language, speed of information processing, verbal fluency, and attention. All cognitive outcomes and measurement tools used across studies are listed in Table 1.
The quality of trials was assessed by Jadad scales . Studies with scores ≥ 3 were classified as high-quality studies and those of ≤ 2 were classified as “low-quality” studies. [26, 29,30,31, 33, 36] studies were considered high-quality studies while [34, 35] studies were considered of low-quality. Blinding of participants was not possible due to th...
Sakamoto et al. studied the effect of music intervention (active and passive) on patients with severe dementia. Results showed that there is a short-term improvement in emotional state assessed by the facial scale which is a tool commonly used by psychologists and healthcare professionals to assess and code facial expressions, both positive and ne...
A recent worldwide survey among professional members of organizations affiliated with the World Federation of Music Therapy (n = 2495) revealed that music therapists mainly worked in mental health settings, schools, geriatric facilities, and private practice . About half of the respondents reported working with children/preteens (50.6%), and teens (45.7%), whereas 38.2% indicated working with ...
Nov 14, 2024 · In addition, secondary analysis of 11 interviews with ward staff and music therapists, collected during a service evaluation of music therapy on 2 inpatient mental health dementia wards, was ...
Facts About Music Therapy in Child and Adolescence Behavioral Health According to the American Music Therapy Association’s (AMTA) recent Member Survey & Workforce Analysis documents (2014-2017), approximately 22% of music therapists reported working with children and/or adolescents in behavioral health settings.
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Music therapy, as defined by The American Music Therapy Association (AMTA), is “the clinical and evidence-based use of music interventions to accomplish individualized goals within a therapeutic relationship by a credentialed professional who has completed an approved music therapy program” (AMTA, n.d.). The primary difference between these definitions is the role of a credentialed ...
