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Occup Ther Int 2022 12;2022:6167197. Epub 2022 Jul 12.

Amazon Music, 525 Market St FL19, San Francisco, CA 94105, USA.

The purpose is to reduce students' psychological pressure and improve their quality of study and life. Here, 400 language-impaired students in the public elective psychology course at Northwestern University and the undergraduate psychology class at Xi'an Foreign Studies University in the 2018-2019 academic year are randomly selected as the research objects for this music psychology experiment. The students were divided into different experimental groups using the Questionnaire Survey (QS) method to analyze the students' psychological reactions to Baroque, classical, and romantic music styles. Read More

S Afr J Psychiatr 2022 29;28:1884. Epub 2022 Jul 29.

Centre for Ethics and Philosophy of Health Sciences, Faculty of Health Sciences, University of Pretoria, Pretoria, South Africa.

Background: In the Life Esidimeni tragedy, crucial voices of mental healthcare users and practitioners were silenced, captured in the Ombud's report as a 'failure to listen'. Working against this kind of failure, various therapeutic interventions listen deliberately and uncover the voice of the patient, that is, what matters from his or her subjective perspective in his or her particular circumstances. Amongst these interventions, music therapy provides for this sensitive listening by expanding the scope and means of expression from the verbal to the musical. Read More

J Holist Nurs 2022 Aug 8:8980101221119777. Epub 2022 Aug 8.

2840Millikin University.

The purpose of the study was to examine the effects of music combined with an artistic design of a painted piano on cognitively impaired residents living in a long-term care memory facility. A qualitative descriptive study design was used to elicit responses from the participants. Residents of the facility were invited to attend sessions, during which familiar songs were played. Read More

Front Cardiovasc Med 2022 18;9:869104. Epub 2022 Jul 18.

Division of Cardiology, Department of Medicine, Medical College of Wisconsin, Milwaukee, WI, United States.

Background: Singing is a physical activity involving components of the vagal nerves manifested as changes in cardiac autonomic regulation.

Aims: The aim of this pilot study is to investigate the acute effects of singing on biomarkers of cardiovascular health.

Methods: Adult subjects were recruited from cardiology clinics to participate in a single 90-min study visit. Read More

Occup Ther Int 2022 8;2022:8370682. Epub 2022 Jul 8.

Conservatory of Music, Nanjing Normal University, Nanjing, Jiangsu 210000, China.

The purpose of this paper is to provide a group music therapy intervention for elementary and middle school students with mood disorders through music therapy. To explore the improvement of group music therapy on the dysphoria and state of adolescent patients with mood disorders and to explore the relationship with self-identity. A music activity-based mental health education curriculum was designed based on the results of the current survey, while two homogenous classes were selected as the experimental and control classes; subsequently, the experimental teaching of the music activity-based mental health education curriculum was conducted in the experimental class, and the regular school mental health education curriculum was conducted in the control class, and the pre- and postexperimental scale tests were used to analyze that the curriculum of this study had a positive effect of this study's curriculum on elementary school students' positive emotions analyzed through pre- and postexperimental scale tests. Read More