Music therapy for stress reduction: a systematic review and meta-analysis
de Witte M, Pinho ADS, Stams GJ, Moonen X, Bos AER, van Hooren S
Health psychology review · 181 citations
How it was studied
- Design
- Meta-analysis (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 (grant number 023.007.068); Nederlandse Organisatie voor Wetenschappelijk Onderzoek (023.007.068)
Based on 2 listed funder(s).
Publication
- Published
- 2020-11-12 · Health Psychol Rev · vol. 16 · issue 1 · pp. 134–159
- Publisher
- Taylor & Francis
- Cited
- 432 citations · more than 97% of similar papers · 5.6× the field average
- Impact
- Top 10% most cited in its field
- References
- 205 works
- Access
- Open access (hybrid journal) · CC-BY-NC-ND
- Research areas
- Music Therapy and Health · Neuroscience and Music Perception · Diverse Music Education Insights
- Keywords
- Stress reduction, Meta-analysis, Psychology, Stress (linguistics), Reduction (mathematics), Music therapy, Psychotherapist, Clinical psychology, Medicine, Internal medicine, Philosophy
- MeSH
- humans, music therapy, stress, psychological, anxiety, music
6 authors
From NL
- Martina de Witte · correspondingHAN University of Applied Sciences; Ipse de Bruggen; University of Amsterdam
- Ana da Silva PinhoUniversity of Amsterdam
- Geert Jan J. M. StamsUniversity of Amsterdam
- Xavier MoonenZuyd University of Applied Sciences; University of Amsterdam
- Arjan E. R. BosOpen University of the Netherlands
- Susan van HoorenZuyd University of Applied Sciences; Open University of the Netherlands
Abstract
Music therapy is increasingly being used as an intervention for stress reduction in both medical and mental healthcare settings. Music therapy is characterized by personally tailored music interventions initiated by a trained and qualified music therapist, which distinguishes music therapy from other music interventions, such as 'music medicine', which concerns mainly music listening interventions offered by healthcare professionals. To summarize the growing body of empirical research on music therapy, a multilevel meta-analysis, containing 47 studies, 76 effect sizes and 2.747 participants, was performed to assess the strength of the effects of music therapy on both physiological and psychological stress-related outcomes, and to test potential moderators of the intervention effects. Results showed that music therapy showed an overall medium-to-large effect on stress-related outcomes (d = .723, [.51-.94]). Larger effects were found for clinical controlled trials (CCT) compared to randomized controlled trials (RCT), waiting list controls instead of care as usual (CAU) or other stress-reducing interventions, and for studies conducted in Non-Western countries compared to Western countries. Implications for both music therapy and future research are discussed.
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