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Inez Frias Castro
Spring 2017
Dr. Miles M. Ishigaki
Music 9
Music Therapy in Mental Health
The article Music therapy’s effects on levels of depression, anxiety, and social isolation in Mexican farmworkers living in the United States: A randomized controlled trial is about a study made using music therapy and Mexican farmworkers. The purpose of the study was to see whether music therapy could positively affect levels of anxiety, depression, and isolation in Mexican farmworkers. Despite their efforts, Schwantes, McKinney, and Hannibal do not find significant change in levels of depression, anxiety, and isolation; furthermore, they blame their failure on the limitations that presented themselves during the course of the study (Shwantes, …show more content…
In their study, they only visited the comparison twice for thirty minutes over the span of eight weeks and the music therapy group once a week for ninety minutes (Schwantes, McKinney, Hannibal 122). In the study with Chinese prisoners, the researchers visited the participants as often as two times a week for ninety minutes (Chen, Hannibal, Gold 1070). Additionally, in the study lead by Jaakko Erkkila, participants were also visited twice a week for sixty minutes (Erkkila et al. 134). Perhaps if Shwantes, McKinney, and Hannibal would have increased the frequency and length of the visitations, they would have seen more significant …show more content…
Individual music therapy for depression: randomised controlled trial. The British Journal of Psychiatry, vol. 199, no. 2, 2011, pp 132-139. doi: 10.1192/bjp.bp.110.085431
Chen, Xi-Jing, Niels Hannibal, and Christian Gold. Randomized Trial of Group Music Therapy with Chinese Prisoners: Impact on Anxiety, Depression, and Self-Esteem. International Journal of Offender Therapy and Comparative Criminology, vol. 60, no. 9, 2016, pp 1064-1081. doi: 10.1177/0306624X15572795
Choi, Ae-Na, et al. Effects of Group Music Intervention on Depression, Anxiety, and Relationships in Psychiatric Patients: A Pilot Study. Journal of Alternative & Complementary Medicine, vol. 14, no. 5, June 2008, pp. 567-570. EBSCOhost, doi:10.1089/acm.2008.0006.
Gold, Christian, et al. Music Therapy for Prisoners: Pilot Randomised Controlled Trial and Implications for Evaluating Psychosocial Interventions. International Journal of Offender Therapy and Comparative Criminology, vol. 58, no. 12, 2014, pp. 1520-1539. doi: 10.1177/0306624X13498693
Hsu, Wei-Chi, Hul-Ling Lai. Effects of Music on Major Depression In
Inez Frias Castro
Spring 2017
Dr. Miles M. Ishigaki
Music 9
Music Therapy in Mental Health
The article Music therapy’s effects on levels of depression, anxiety, and social isolation in Mexican farmworkers living in the United States: A randomized controlled trial is about a study made using music therapy and Mexican farmworkers. The purpose of the study was to see whether music therapy could positively affect levels of anxiety, depression, and isolation in Mexican farmworkers. Despite their efforts, Schwantes, McKinney, and Hannibal do not find significant change in levels of depression, anxiety, and isolation; furthermore, they blame their failure on the limitations that presented themselves during the course of the study (Shwantes, …show more content…
In their study, they only visited the comparison twice for thirty minutes over the span of eight weeks and the music therapy group once a week for ninety minutes (Schwantes, McKinney, Hannibal 122). In the study with Chinese prisoners, the researchers visited the participants as often as two times a week for ninety minutes (Chen, Hannibal, Gold 1070). Additionally, in the study lead by Jaakko Erkkila, participants were also visited twice a week for sixty minutes (Erkkila et al. 134). Perhaps if Shwantes, McKinney, and Hannibal would have increased the frequency and length of the visitations, they would have seen more significant …show more content…
Individual music therapy for depression: randomised controlled trial. The British Journal of Psychiatry, vol. 199, no. 2, 2011, pp 132-139. doi: 10.1192/bjp.bp.110.085431
Chen, Xi-Jing, Niels Hannibal, and Christian Gold. Randomized Trial of Group Music Therapy with Chinese Prisoners: Impact on Anxiety, Depression, and Self-Esteem. International Journal of Offender Therapy and Comparative Criminology, vol. 60, no. 9, 2016, pp 1064-1081. doi: 10.1177/0306624X15572795
Choi, Ae-Na, et al. Effects of Group Music Intervention on Depression, Anxiety, and Relationships in Psychiatric Patients: A Pilot Study. Journal of Alternative & Complementary Medicine, vol. 14, no. 5, June 2008, pp. 567-570. EBSCOhost, doi:10.1089/acm.2008.0006.
Gold, Christian, et al. Music Therapy for Prisoners: Pilot Randomised Controlled Trial and Implications for Evaluating Psychosocial Interventions. International Journal of Offender Therapy and Comparative Criminology, vol. 58, no. 12, 2014, pp. 1520-1539. doi: 10.1177/0306624X13498693
Hsu, Wei-Chi, Hul-Ling Lai. Effects of Music on Major Depression In