“…Data from 26 eligible studies and 779 total participants (mean [SD] age, 60 [11] years) were included in the present study (eFigure 1, eTables 1 and 2 in the Supplement ). Included studies were conducted in Australia, 25 Brazil, 26 , 27 , 28 China (Hong Kong SAR), 29 Germany, 30 India, 31 Italy, 32 , 33 , 34 The Netherlands, 35 , 36 Spain, 37 Sweden, 38 Thailand, 39 Turkey, 40 the United Kingdom, 41 , 42 , 43 , 44 , 45 and the US. 46 , 47 , 48 , 49 , 50 Included studies comprised 22 investigations of clinical populations and 4 of healthy populations (10 investigations examined music listening, 7 music therapy, 8 singing, and 1 gospel music intervention) and 20 randomized clinical trials (RCTs) and 6 single-group studies (8 RCTs included comparisons with a usual treatment control group, 3 RCTs used meditation control groups, and 9 RCTs used a range of other disparate control groups).…”