Effects of music interventions on stress-related outcomes: a systematic review and two meta-analyses
de Witte M, Spruit A, van Hooren S, Moonen X, Stams GJ
Health psychology review · 207 citations
How it was studied
- Design
- Systematic review (indexed by PubMed)
- Studied in
- People
- Main outcome
- Health markers and function
Who paid for it
- Funding
- Independent funding
- Government
- Nederlandse Organisatie voor Wetenschappelijk Onderzoek
- Government
- Dutch Research Council (NWO)
- Grants
- Nederlandse Organisatie voor Wetenschappelijk Onderzoek (023.007.068)
Based on 2 listed funder(s).
Publication
- Published
- 2019-06-06 · Health Psychol Rev · vol. 14 · issue 2 · pp. 294–324
- Publisher
- Taylor & Francis
- Cited
- 531 citations · more than 99% of similar papers · 8.9× the field average
- Impact
- Top 10% most cited in its field
- References
- 161 works
- Access
- Open access (hybrid journal) · CC-BY-NC-ND
- Research areas
- Music Therapy and Health · Neuroscience and Music Perception · Anxiety, Depression, Psychometrics, Treatment, Cognitive Processes
- Keywords
- Psychological intervention, Anxiety, Moderation, Meta-analysis, Psychology, Arousal, Heart rate, Clinical psychology, Stress management, Blood pressure, Medicine, Internal medicine, Social psychology, Psychiatry
- MeSH
- humans, music therapy, stress, psychological, anxiety, heart rate, music
5 authors
From NL
- Martina de Witte · correspondingHAN University of Applied Sciences; Ipse de Bruggen
- Anouk SpruitUniversity of Amsterdam
- Susan van HoorenZuyd University of Applied Sciences; Open University of the Netherlands
- Xavier MoonenZuyd University of Applied Sciences; University of Amsterdam
- Geert Jan J. M. StamsUniversity of Amsterdam
Abstract
Music interventions are used for stress reduction in a variety of settings because of the positive effects of music listening on both physiological arousal (e.g., heart rate, blood pressure, and hormonal levels) and psychological stress experiences (e.g., restlessness, anxiety, and nervousness). To summarize the growing body of empirical research, two multilevel meta-analyses of 104 RCTs, containing 327 effect sizes and 9,617 participants, were performed to assess the strength of the effects of music interventions on both physiological and psychological stress-related outcomes, and to test the potential moderators of the intervention effects. Results showed that music interventions had an overall significant effect on stress reduction in both physiological (d = .380) and psychological (d = .545) outcomes. Further, moderator analyses showed that the type of outcome assessment moderated the effects of music interventions on stress-related outcomes. Larger effects were found on heart rate (d = .456), compared to blood pressure (d = .343) and hormone levels (d = .349). Implications for stress-reducing music interventions are discussed.
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