Does Music Therapy Improve Anxiety and Depression in Alzheimer's Patients?
de la Rubia Ortí JE, García-Pardo MP, Iranzo CC, Madrigal JJC, Castillo SS, Rochina MJ, Gascó VJP
Journal of alternative and complementary medicine (New York, N.Y.) · 51 citations
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How it was studied
- Design
- Controlled clinical trial (classified by our AI screen)
- Studied in
- People
- Main outcome
- Health markers and function
Who paid for it
- Funding
- Funding not disclosed
Publication
- Published
- 2017-07-17 · J Altern Complement Med · vol. 24 · issue 1 · pp. 33–36
- Publisher
- Mary Ann Liebert, Inc.
- Cited
- 95 citations · more than 95% of similar papers · 4.7× the field average
- Impact
- Top 10% most cited in its field
- References
- 8 works
- Access
- Open access (repository copy) · CC-BY-NC
- Research areas
- Music Therapy and Health · Dementia and Cognitive Impairment Research · Neuroscience and Music Perception
- Keywords
- Medicine, Anxiety, Depression (economics), Music therapy, Saliva, Disease, Clinical psychology, Internal medicine, Psychiatry
- MeSH
- saliva, humans, alzheimer disease, hydrocortisone, music therapy, depression, anxiety, aged, aged, 80 and over, female, male
7 authors
From ES
- José Enrique de la Rubia OrtíUniversitat de València; Universidad Europea de Valencia; Universidad Europea de Madrid
- María Pilar García-Pardo · correspondingUniversitat de València; Universidad Europea de Valencia; Universidad Europea de Madrid
- Carmen IranzoHospital de Manises
- J. M. Castro CerónUniversidad de Murcia
- Sandra Sancho-CastilloUniversitat de València; Valencia Catholic University Saint Vincent Martyr
- Mariano Julián RochinaUniversitat de València
Abstract
Objective
To evaluate the effectiveness of the implementation of a short protocol of music therapy as a tool to reduce stress and improve the emotional state in patients with mild Alzheimer's disease.
Methods
A sample of 25 patients with mild Alzheimer's received therapy based on the application of a music therapy session lasting 60 min. Before and after the therapy, patient saliva was collected to quantify the level of salivary cortisol using the Enzyme-Linked ImmunoSorbent Assay (ELISA) immunoassay technique and a questionnaire was completed to measure anxiety and depression (Hospital Anxiety and Depression Scale).
Results
The results show that the application of this therapy lowers the level of stress and decreases significantly depression and anxiety, establishing a linear correlation between the variation of these variables and the variation of cortisol.
Conclusions
A short protocol of music therapy can be an alternative medicine to improve emotional variables in Alzheimer patients.
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