Benefits of music therapy on behaviour disorders in subjects diagnosed with dementia: a systematic review
Gómez-Romero M, Jiménez-Palomares M, Rodríguez-Mansilla J, Flores-Nieto A, Garrido-Ardila EM, González López-Arza MV
Neurologia (Barcelona, Spain) · 44 citations
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How it was studied
- Design
- Systematic review (indexed by PubMed)
- Studied in
- People
- Main outcome
- Health markers and function
Who paid for it
- Funding
- Funding not disclosed
Publication
- Published
- 2016-12-18 · Neurologia · vol. 32 · issue 4 · pp. 253–263
- Publisher
- Elsevier BV
- Cited
- 75 citations · more than 66% of similar papers · 0.8× the field average
- References
- 20 works
- Access
- Open access (hybrid journal) · CC-BY-NC-ND
- Research areas
- Music Therapy and Health · Dementia and Cognitive Impairment Research · Neuroscience and Music Perception
- Keywords
- Dementia, Music therapy, Psychology, Anxiety, Mood, Psychotherapist, Cognition, Psychiatry, Clinical psychology, Disease, Humanities, Medicine, Internal medicine
- MeSH
- humans, dementia, psychomotor agitation, music therapy, anxiety
6 authors
From ES
- María José Gómez-RomeroUniversidad de Extremadura
- María Jiménez-PalomaresUniversidad de Extremadura
- Juan Rodríguez-Mansilla · correspondingUniversidad de Extremadura
- A. Flores-NietoUniversidad de Extremadura
- Elisa María Garrido-ArdilaUniversidad de Extremadura
- María Victoria González-López-ArzaUniversidad de Extremadura
Abstract
Introduction
Dementia is characterised by cognitive deterioration and the manifestation of psychological and behavioural symptoms, especially changes in perception, thought content, mood, and conduct. In addition to drug therapy, non-pharmacological treatments are used to manage these symptoms, and one of these latter treatments is music therapy. Since this novel technique in non-verbal, it can be used to treat patients with dementia at any stage, even when cognitive deterioration is very severe. Patients' responses to music are conserved even in the most advanced stages of the disease DEVELOPMENT: A literature research was carried out using the following databases: Academic Search Complete, PubMed, Science Direct y Dialnet. The period of publication was 2003 to 2013 and the search keywords were 'Music Therapy, Dementia, Behaviour, Behaviour Disorders y Behavioural Disturbances'. Out of the 2188 studies that were identified, 11 studies met inclusion criteria for the systematic review.
Conclusions
Music therapy is beneficial and improves behavior disorders, anxiety and agitation in subjects diagnosed with dementia.
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