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In addition to eliciting positive emotions, music therapy has been shown to have long-term benefits in reducing behavioral and psychological symptoms of dementia assessed by the Behavioral Pathology in Alzheimer’s Disease (BEHAVE-AD) Rating Scale, a well-established instrument to assess and evaluate behavioral symptoms in AD patients, as well as to evaluate treatment outcomes and identify ...
- Music Therapy in the Treatment of Dementia: A Systematic ...
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Music therapy was effective when patients received...
- Music Therapy in the Treatment of Dementia: A Systematic ...
- 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...
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.
The effect of music therapy on cognitive functions in patients with dementia: A systematic review and meta-analysis. Aging Ment. Health. 2018;22:1103–1112. doi: 10.1080/13607863.2017.1348474. [Google Scholar] 41. Guess H. Alzheimer’s disease and the impact of music therapy: A systematic literature review. James Madison Undergrad. Res.
Background The use of music interventions as a non-pharmacological therapy to improve cognitive and behavioral symptoms in Alzheimer’s disease (AD) patients has gained popularity in recent years ...
Music therapy was effective when patients received interactive therapy with a compared group. There was positive evidence to support the use of music therapy to treat disruptive behavior and anxiety; there were positive trends supporting the use of music therapy for the treatment of cognitive function, depression and quality of life.
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Objectives: The aim of the present study was to meta-analyze the effect of music therapy (MT) on cognitive functions in patients with dementia. Method: A systematic literature search was performed in Medline, PsycINFO, Embase, CINAHL and RILM up to 8 September 2016. We included all randomized controlled trials that compared MT with standard ...
