Music, health, and well-being: A review

MacDonald, Raymond

doi:10.3402/qhw.v8i0.20635

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“…McDonald et al (McDonald et al, 2013) proposed a very useful model of music and health which began to explore the intersection and overlap that is experienced in practical work experience (Figure 1). Here, educational, therapeutic and everyday uses of music are explored as inter-related rather than separate activities.…”

Section: Existing Paradigms For Arts and Healthmentioning

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Arts and Health: A New Paradigm

Moss

2016

Voices

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This position paper presents a new paradigm about the intrinsic structure and nature of arts and health practice. This paradigm is based on a variety of research experiences over twenty years working as a music therapist, musician, music and health practitioner, researcher and director of an arts and health programme in university teaching hospitals, community contexts, and non-governmental organizations in Ireland and the UK.The aim of this paper is to propose a new perspective on the term arts and health, to encompass all arts related activity that exists in contexts related to health. This paradigm aims to counter the artificial and defensive barriers constructed between practitioners and professional groups within the field, encourage greater respect and understanding between practitioners and assist in identifying training and development needs for the various arts professionals working in contexts related to health and well-being. It is proposed that the current commonly held assumptions surrounding definitions of arts and health and arts therapies are unhelpful and problematic and should be refined.

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Section: Existing Paradigms For Arts and Healthmentioning

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Arts and Health: A New Paradigm

Moss

2016

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“…This development resulted in a new scholarly discipline called “Music and Health” (MH). In addition to traditional music therapy issues, MH focuses specifically on how music may be used to increase wellbeing and quality of life [12–14]. …”

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Sami yoik, Sami history, Sami health: a narrative review

Hämäläinen

Salamonsen

Graff

et al. 2018

International Journal of Circumpolar Health

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Music as a possible health-promoting agent has attained increasing academic and scientific interest over the last decades. Nonetheless, possible connections between indigenous singing traditions and health beyond traditional ceremonial healing practices are still under-researched worldwide.The Sami, the indigenous people living in Northern Fennoscandia, have a distinct ancient vocal music tradition called “yoik” practiced from immemorial times. The Sami share a history of assimilation with many indigenous people. During this period of nearly 400 years, yoik alongside other cultural markers was under hard pressure and even banned at times.Compared to other indigenous people in the Arctic, Sami public health shows few significant unfavourable differences to the majority population. The potential role of yoik as a protective health and resilience factor within the Sami culture is the topic of this review. We suggest a two stage model for the health promoting effects of yoik through i) emotion regulation and stress relief on the level of the individual, and ii) as a socio-cultural resilience factors within the Sami population. This review is to be understood as theory-building review article striving for a scholarly review of the literature.

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“…On the other hand, simple music listening interventions don't require neither a specifically trained therapist nor a direct therapeutic relationship with the patient being that beneficial effects are induced by the content of the musical stimuli and by the activity of listening itself. For these reasons, this practice is sometimes defined with the term "Music Medicine" rather than "MT" [41,50,51] . Notwithstanding, listening interventions seem to be quite common in clinical literature, usually based on self-selected or other-selected music proposed individually [52,53] or in group, as in the case of background music [54,55] .…”

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Effects of music and music therapy on mood in neurological patients

Raglio

Attardo

Gontero

et al. 2015

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Mood disorder and depressive syndromes represent a common comorbid condition in neurological disorders with a prevalence rate that ranges between 20% and 50% of patients with stroke, epilepsy, multiple sclerosis, and Parkinson's disease. Notwithstanding, these conditions are often under-diagnosed and under-treated in the clinical practice and negatively affect the functional recovery, the adherence to treatment, the quality of life, and even the mortality risk. In addition, a bidirectional association between depression and neurological disorders may be possible being that depressive syndromes may be considered as a risk factor for certain neurological diseases. Despite the large amount of evidence regarding the effects of music therapy (MT) and other musical interventions on different aspects of neurological disorders, no updated article reviewing outcomes such as mood, emotions, depression, activity of daily living and so on is actually available; for this reason, little is known about the effectiveness of music and MT on these important outcomes in neurological patients. The aim of this article is to provide a narrative review of the current literature on musical interventions and their effects on mood and depression in patients with neurological disorders. Searching on PubMed and PsycInfo databases, 25 studies corresponding to the inclusion criteria have been selected; 11 of them assess the effects of music or MT in Dementia, 9 explore the efficacy on patients with Stroke, and 5 regard other neurological diseases like Multiple Sclerosis, Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis/motor neuron disease, Chronic quadriplegia, Parkinson's Disease, and Acquired Brain dysfunctions. Selected studies are based on relational and rehabilitative music therapy approaches or concern music listening interventions. Most of the studies support the efficacy of MT and other musical interventions on mood, depressive syndromes, and quality of life on neurological patients.

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Music, health, and well-being: A review

Cited by 162 publications

References 56 publications

Arts and Health: A New Paradigm

Arts and Health: A New Paradigm

Sami yoik, Sami history, Sami health: a narrative review

Effects of music and music therapy on mood in neurological patients

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