Archive for May, 2009
May 31st, 2009 0:05:33
[Music therapy in chronic tonal tinnitus : Heidelberg model of evidence-based music therapy.]
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[Music therapy in chronic tonal tinnitus : Heidelberg model of evidence-based music therapy.]
HNO. 2008 Jun 19;
Authors: Argstatter H, Krick C, Bolay HV
Tinnitus has a very high prevalence, with more than one million patients in the German population needing treatment for it. About 50% of them suffer from so-called tonal tinnitus, i.e., tinnitus with a well-defined frequency. Although tinnitus is one of the most common symptoms in ENT medicine, the existing treatments are polypragmatic and often lack a scientific foundation. Based on this fact, a novel music therapy concept was developed, evaluated, and scientifically substantiated (with psychological, audiological, and functional imaging procedures in the diagnosis and treatment).The advantages of the described therapy are the integration of known and well-proven acoustic and psychotherapeutic techniques. They were converted to specific music therapy interventions (resonance training, neuroauditive cortex reprogramming, and tinnitus desensitization).More than 190 patients suffering from chronic tonal tinnitus were effectively treated. The results indicate that the therapy is highly advantageous in terms of treatment duration, effectiveness, and follow-up stability compared with customary interventions. Furthermore, the results of brain imaging strongly suggest the usefulness of further investigation and discussion in the realm of neuronal tinnitus modeling.
PMID: 18566786 [PubMed - as supplied by publisher]
May 30th, 2009 19:05:53
A pilot study on effectiveness of music therapy in hospice in Japan.
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A pilot study on effectiveness of music therapy in hospice in Japan.
J Music Ther. 2009;46(2):160-72
Authors: Nakayama H, Kikuta F, Takeda H
This study aims at determining the effectiveness of music therapy in a hospice setting. We employed the salivary cortisol level, which is widely used to measure stress level, as an objective and physical indicator and the Mood Inventory, which measures mood change, as the subjective and psychological indicators. Though many preceding studies have demonstrated that listening to music lowers cortisol levels and reduces stress, no study seems to have included hospice patients. This study measured, with the consent of 10 hospice inpatients, their salivary cortisol levels. Individual interviews, according to the Mood Inventory, were conducted before and after a small-group session. Since all the participants had terminal cancer, the 40-minute live session of songs of seasons and the participants’ requests was given in a mostly passive manner considering their physical strength. Results showed significant lowering of salivary cortisol levels after the therapy session. As for the parameters of mood, refreshment was significantly increased. Though fatigue remained unchanged, anxiety and depression decreased while the score for excitement tended to increase. Thus, it was indicated that music therapy in a hospice setting reduces the stress level of patients and thereby plays a positive role in improving patients’ quality of life.
PMID: 19463033 [PubMed - in process]
May 28th, 2009 7:05:04
Music may reduce anxiety during invasive procedures in adolescents and adults.
Music may reduce anxiety during invasive procedures in adolescents and adults.
Evid Based Dent. 2009;10(1):15
Authors: Newton JT
DESIGN: A block randomised controlled trial was conducted. INTERVENTION: Patients in the music (test) group listened to selected sedative music using headphones throughout the root canal treatment procedure. The control group subjects wore headphones but without the music. OUTCOME MEASURE: Anxiety was measured before the study and at the end of the treatment procedure. Patients’ heart rate, blood pressure and finger temperature were measured before the study and every 10 min until the end of the root canal treatment procedure. RESULTS: The results revealed that there were no significant differences between the two groups for baseline data and procedure-related characteristics, except for gender. The subjects in the music group, however, showed a significant increase in finger temperature and a decrease in anxiety score over time compared with the control group. The effect size for state anxiety and finger temperature was 0.34 and 0.14, respectively. CONCLUSIONS: Relaxing music administered through headphones to subjects during root canal treatment decreased the procedure-related anxiety of the patients and significantly increased finger temperature, but does not significantly affect blood pressure and heart rate over the procedure.
PMID: 19322222 [PubMed - in process]
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