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Attitudes Towards Music as a Means of Therapy: Can It Help to Overcome Depression and/or Cardiovascular Disease?

Vaitsa Giannouli1.   

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Year:  2013        PMID: 26973896      PMCID: PMC4768609          DOI: 10.4081/hpr.2013.e7

Source DB:  PubMed          Journal:  Health Psychol Res        ISSN: 2420-8124


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Music is well-known for its healing properties since the time of the ancient Greek asclepieia. Exposure to various genres of music (e.g. classical) is widely claimed to improve quality of life and serve as an effective way for the reduction of pain, reduction of blood pressure, improvement in cardiorespiratory variables, such as heart rate (HR) and heart rate variability (HRV), reduction of chronic headaches and migraines, boosting of immunity and at the same time it is claimed to enhance intelligence, learning and IQ (especially memory performance, concentration, attention, reading and literacy skills, spatial-temporal reasoning and mathematical abilities).[1-5] Although, not all studies show the same magical influence of music on human health and cognition,[6-11] it is interesting to explore what are the attitudes of people for music, health and psychology, especially from a different cultural and musical background (as is the case for Greece). The purpose of this study was to reveal something still unknown: the attitudes that young adults have for music and its applications on psychology-psychiatry. 300 volunteers (188 women, 112 men; mean age = 21.91 years, SD = 4.95) filled a short demographic survey (age, sex, education, profession) along with a brief semi-structured questionnaire. The participants were all non-musicians and non-patients at the time of the examination. They were asked to write down their views about music and its applications on nuclear medicine and music and psychology/psychiatry.[12] The main questions at which they had to respond were: 1. Can music help you with a physical problem? (67% yes, 33 % no), 2. What kind of problem (heart diseases 56%, hypertension 44%), 3. Can music improve the quality of life in chronic disease? (82% yes, 18% no), 4. In what way does music influence your health? (through regulation of the impact that the emotion has on my health 54%, through regulation of the impact that the cognition has on my health 30%, in a still unknown way 16%) 5. Can music help you pass a psychological problem? (78% yes, 22 % no), 6. What kind of problem (major depression 54%, anxiety disorders 46%), 7. Can music improve your cognitive performance? (69% yes, 31 % no), 8. What kind of cognitive tasks do you believe that can be improved with music? (spatial-temporal reasoning tasks 42%, mathematical tasks 30%, attention 28%), 9. In which way can it help you? (passive listening 56%, playing an instrument 20%, singing in a choir 24%), 10. Which would you prefer, if only one was available for you? (passive listening of favorite pieces 86%), 11. Why? (it is available at any time 34%, at low cost 40%, it does not stigmatize me as a patient 26%), 12. What would you propose to psychiatrists and mental health experts? [Introduce music therapy, passive (also called music medicine) and active-creative music therapy to the public 67%, combine classic techniques and new ones involving music 20%, try at first music therapy interventions (especially for depression) and continue in parallel with classic psychotherapy or pills 13%]. For all the above questions statistical analyses did not show any differences between men-women and educational and professional groups. Exploring people’s ideas and expectations about the connection of music and health-illness (especially mental health), backs up what might always have seemed like common sense, that music may help us alter our physical and mental status. So, music could be used in accompanying psychological interventions concerning health and disease and/or rehabilitation programs. Even if music’s influence on health is not yet fully scientifically proved, the vast majority of young Greeks see it as a tool for change, and these perceived benefits of music should be further explored and incorporated in health services, such as the general hospital.
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Authors:  K M Steele; J D Brown; J A Stoecker
Journal:  Percept Mot Skills       Date:  1999-06

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Authors:  D J Bridgett; J Cuevas
Journal:  Percept Mot Skills       Date:  2000-06

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Journal:  Percept Mot Skills       Date:  2004-04

4.  Is listening to Mozart the only way to enhance spatial reasoning?

Authors:  Amanda Lints; Shannon Gadbois
Journal:  Percept Mot Skills       Date:  2003-12

5.  Dynamic interactions between musical, cardiovascular, and cerebral rhythms in humans.

Authors:  Luciano Bernardi; Cesare Porta; Gaia Casucci; Rossella Balsamo; Nicolò F Bernardi; Roberto Fogari; Peter Sleight
Journal:  Circulation       Date:  2009-06-30       Impact factor: 29.690

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Authors:  K M Steele; T N Ball; R Runk
Journal:  Percept Mot Skills       Date:  1997-06

7.  Is there a place for music in nuclear medicine?

Authors:  Vaitsa Giannouli; Nikolaos Lytras; Nikolaos Syrmos
Journal:  Hell J Nucl Med       Date:  2012 Sep-Dec       Impact factor: 1.102

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Authors:  Hans-Joachim Trappe
Journal:  Int J Crit Illn Inj Sci       Date:  2012-01
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