Acute stress recovery through listening to Melomics relaxing music: A randomized controlled trial

Torre‐Luque, Alejandro de la; Caparrós-González, Rafael A.; Bastard, Teresa; Vico, Francisco J.; Buela-Casal, Gualberto

doi:10.1080/08098131.2015.1131186

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“…Relaxing music and sounds, is a noninvasive and free of side-effects approach that has been used in 31 apps as a management method. It has been shown to be an effective tool for the reduction of anxiety, stress, and depression [55] , [56] . It has also shown positive results in the prevention of anxiety and stress-induced changes like HR and BP [57] .…”

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An analysis on self-management and treatment-related functionality and characteristics of highly rated anxiety apps

Drissi

Ouhbi

Idrissi

et al. 2020

International Journal of Medical Informatics

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Highlights Selected apps addressed multiple anxiety issues as well as other health issues. Selected apps adopted various anxiety self-management and treatment approaches. 51% of the selected anxiety apps use gamification to motivate and engage users. Only few apps (19%) reported mental health professionals involvement in their design. 64% of the apps were updated in early 2020, which may be linked to COVID-19 outbreak.

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An analysis on self-management and treatment-related functionality and characteristics of highly rated anxiety apps

Drissi

Ouhbi

Idrissi

et al. 2020

International Journal of Medical Informatics

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“…Diverse studies have highlighted the positive relation between higher levels of sample entropy and health (Meigal et al, 2009; D. Zhang et al, 2009); indeed, it has been found that higher levels of anxiety are associated with lower levels of sample entropy (Bornas et al, 2006); conversely, promotion of relaxation leads to higher levels of sample entropy (de la Torre-Luque, Caparrós-González, Bastard, Vico, & Buela-Casal, 2016; Porta et al, 2013; Vlemincx, Vigo, Vansteenwegen, van den Bergh, & van Diest, 2013). Accordingly, it was found that lower levels of sample entropy were observed when the stressor was present (especially during anticipatory-anxiety and exposition phases); during stress recovery, the levels of sample entropy became higher, being significantly greater when the participants were exposed to the preferred-music intervention.…”

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Effects of preferred relaxing music after acute stress exposure: A randomized controlled trial

Torre‐Luque

Díaz-Piedra

2017

Psychology of Music

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In daily contexts, coping with stressful events involves a great level of personal resources to recover baseline conditions efficiently, a process called stress recovery. The aim of this study was to assess the effects of an intervention based on preferred relaxing music on the recovery after stress exposure. We also analyzed the effect of gender on stress recovery. Fifty-eight undergraduates underwent a paradigm of laboratory-based stress induction and were randomly assigned to either the control or the experimental group. The recovery period included either silent resting (control group) or listening to their preferred music to become relaxed (experimental group) for 15 minutes. Cardiovascular measures and self-reported emotional states were monitored across the stress induction and recovery stages. Participants in the experimental group exhibited higher levels of heart-derived high frequency power, and greater sample entropy in the recovery period. They also showed lower levels of self-reported states of anxiety, depression, and negative affect, as well as greater levels of positive affect. Gender-related differences were also found during recovery for both cardiovascular and self-reported measures. To conclude, interventions based on preferred relaxing music allow promotion of a healthier recovery and improve affective state after acute stress exposure considering differential outcomes according to gender.

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“…Stress: The task was practically equivalent to the High WL one (indicating when the stimulus occurred in the series two steps before) but simultaneously high intensity noise was played (85 db) and the white-coat effect was used to stress the participant [ 35 ]. Four-minute relaxing music and video was played at the end of this phase for letting the participants recover from the stressful event before continuing with the remaining experimental conditions [ 36 ].…”

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Wearable Technologies for Mental Workload, Stress, and Emotional State Assessment during Working-Like Tasks: A Comparison with Laboratory Technologies

Giorgi¹,

Ronca

Vozzi

et al. 2021

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The capability of monitoring user’s performance represents a crucial aspect to improve safety and efficiency of several human-related activities. Human errors are indeed among the major causes of work-related accidents. Assessing human factors (HFs) could prevent these accidents through specific neurophysiological signals’ evaluation but laboratory sensors require highly-specialized operators and imply a certain grade of invasiveness which could negatively interfere with the worker’s activity. On the contrary, consumer wearables are characterized by their ease of use and their comfortability, other than being cheaper compared to laboratory technologies. Therefore, wearable sensors could represent an ideal substitute for laboratory technologies for a real-time assessment of human performances in ecological settings. The present study aimed at assessing the reliability and capability of consumer wearable devices (i.e., Empatica E4 and Muse 2) in discriminating specific mental states compared to laboratory equipment. The electrooculographic (EOG), electrodermal activity (EDA) and photoplethysmographic (PPG) signals were acquired from a group of 17 volunteers who took part to the experimental protocol in which different working scenarios were simulated to induce different levels of mental workload, stress, and emotional state. The results demonstrated that the parameters computed by the consumer wearable and laboratory sensors were positively and significantly correlated and exhibited the same evidences in terms of mental states discrimination.

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Acute stress recovery through listening to Melomics relaxing music: A randomized controlled trial

Cited by 37 publications

References 58 publications

An analysis on self-management and treatment-related functionality and characteristics of highly rated anxiety apps

An analysis on self-management and treatment-related functionality and characteristics of highly rated anxiety apps

Effects of preferred relaxing music after acute stress exposure: A randomized controlled trial

Wearable Technologies for Mental Workload, Stress, and Emotional State Assessment during Working-Like Tasks: A Comparison with Laboratory Technologies

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