Music interventions in disorders of consciousness (DOC) - a systematic review
Grimm T, Kreutz G
Brain injury · 17 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
- 2018-03-22 · Brain Inj · vol. 32 · issue 6 · pp. 704–714
- Publisher
- Taylor & Francis
- Cited
- 38 citations · more than 57% of similar papers · 0.6× the field average
- References
- 56 works
- Access
- Paywalled
- Research areas
- Traumatic Brain Injury Research · Psychosomatic Disorders and Their Treatments · Stroke Rehabilitation and Recovery
- Keywords
- Psychological intervention, Music therapy, Persistent vegetative state, Psychology, Minimally conscious state, Wakefulness, MEDLINE, Clinical psychology, Consciousness, Medicine, Psychiatry
- MeSH
- humans, consciousness disorders, music therapy, databases, factual, europe
2 authors
From DE
- Teresa Grimm · correspondingCarl von Ossietzky Universität Oldenburg
- Gunter KreutzCarl von Ossietzky Universität Oldenburg
Abstract
Objectives
The effects of music interventions including active and receptive music therapy for people living with neurogenic disorders of consciousness (DOC) have been subject to empirical studies in the past. The aim of this systematic review was to find and analyse the current research about the effects of musical interventions on people with DOC.
Methods
For this purpose, studies with music interventions and patients with DOC from the year 1900 to 2017 were searched in English, German, and French in different databases. Risk-of-bias-analyses were conducted for each study that fulfilled the inclusion criteria.
Results
Twenty-two quantitative studies (three randomised controlled trials with more than 10 participants) were found eligible for review. They include a total of 329 participants living with either coma, unresponsive wakefulness syndrome, or minimally conscious state. Music interventions were associated with favourable behavioural and physiological responses in several studies, but methodological quality and outcomes were heterogeneous.
Conclusions
More studies with a larger number of participants are needed as well as a consensus on key characteristics of effective short-term and long-term music interventions for DOC.
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