Art, dance, and music therapy

RR Pratt - Physical medicine and rehabilitation clinics, 2004 - pmr.theclinics.com
At the beginning of the twenty-first century, the creative arts therapies are firmly established
as an important part of complementary medicine for psychologic and physiologic illnesses …

Use of preferred music to decrease agitated behaviours in older people with dementia: a review of the literature

H Sung, AM Chang - Journal of clinical nursing, 2005 - Wiley Online Library
Aims and objectives. This paper reviews study findings of preferred music on agitated
behaviours for older people with dementia and provides implications for future research and …

A preferred music listening intervention to reduce anxiety in older adults with dementia in nursing homes

HC Sung, AM Chang, WL Lee - Journal of clinical nursing, 2010 - Wiley Online Library
Aim. This article reports the results of a study evaluating a preferred music listening
intervention for reducing anxiety in older adults with dementia in nursing homes …

Effectiveness of a music therapy intervention on relaxation and anxiety for patients receiving ventilatory assistance

L Chlan - Heart & Lung, 1998 - Elsevier
OBJECTIVE: To test the effects of music therapy on relaxation and anxiety reduction for
patients receiving ventilatory assistance. DESIGN: Two-group, pretest-posttest experimental …

Effects of specific noise and music stimuli on stress and fear levels of laying hens of several breeds

JL Campo, MG Gil, SG Davila - Applied Animal Behaviour Science, 2005 - Elsevier
The purpose of the present study was to analyze the effects of specific sound stimuli on
heterophil to lymphocyte ratio and tonic immobility duration of laying hens. There were two …

Music as a nursing intervention for postoperative pain: a systematic review

M Engwall, GS Duppils - Journal of perianesthesia nursing, 2009 - Elsevier
The purpose of this systematic review was to examine the effect of music on postoperative
pain. A search for scientific articles was conducted using online databases. Included were …

The effect of music on cognitive performance: Insight from neurobiological and animal studies

NS Rickard, SR Toukhsati… - Behavioral and cognitive …, 2005 - journals.sagepub.com
The past 50 years have seen numerous claims that music exposure enhances human
cognitive performance. Critical evaluation of studies across a variety of contexts, however …

Music versus distraction for procedural pain and anxiety in patients with cancer

K Kwekkeboom - Number 3/2003, 2003 - ons.org
Purpose/Objectives: To test the hypotheses that the effects of a music intervention are
greater than those of simple distraction and that either intervention is better at controlling …

Caregiver singing and background music in dementia care

E Götell, S Brown, SL Ekman - Western journal of nursing …, 2002 - journals.sagepub.com
Caregiver singing and background music were incorporated into the interaction between
caregiver and patient, the aim being to illuminate the meaning of verbal communication …

Sound therapy induced relaxation: down regulating stress processes and pathologies.

E Salamon, M Kim, J Beaulieu… - Medical Science …, 2003 - medscimonit.com
The use of music as a means of inducing positive emotions and subsequent relaxation has
been studied extensively by researchers. A great deal of this research has centered on the …