Devina Desa
Literature Review
Music and Health
Title:
Music and health communication in The Gambia: A social capital approach
Author: McConnell, Bonnie B.
Literature Review
This dissertation employs a social capital approach to analyse the relationship between musical performance and health communication, drawing on ethnographic fieldwork with kanyeleng fertility society performers and health workers in The Gambia (2012–2013). Social capital has a critical role to play in reducing the negative effects of interventions, according to research on health communication. Performance has been highlighted by music study as a setting for the creation and negotiation of social obligations. Combining these two viewpoints in this essay to introduce fresh ideas on musical performance as a method of culturally relevant health communication.
Kanyeleng performance facilitates health communication, drawing on participant observation as well as individual and group interviews with performers and health workers (126 participants).
Title:
The Impact Of Music On Increasing Work Productivity
Author: Verica Nedelkovska
Literature Review
Our daily lives are made more beautiful by music. It also possesses a wide range of therapeutic benefits. One of the best ways to lower anxiety, unwind the body and mind, and improve memory is through music. The quality and productivity of work can both be enhanced by music. Yet, not all types of music have a positive impact on performance. The type of job we do and the environment we work in heavily influence the music we choose. In order to analyse the positive impacts of music on work performance, this study will first discovers how music increases productivity, focus, and creativity in the office. It will then applies musical models to analyse these benefits. Induction, the comparison method, and observation are the methods that are employed.
Title:
Music Activities and Mental Health Recovery: Service Users’ Perspectives Presented in the CHIME Framework
Author: Janne Brammer Damsgaard & Anita Jensen
Literature Review
Worldwide, the ideas of recovery are increasingly being incorporated into the creation of mental health services, and offering arts and creative activities as a component of care is becoming more widespread. Yet, there are few experiences of mental health care users who can remark on the complexity of using music participation in rehabilitation. This essay examines literary works that investigate the therapeutic benefits of music for people seeking mental health services. We have chosen studies that cover a wide range of musical activities as well as literature that takes different ideas on healing into account. The context for investigating music-related activities as a contribution to recovery-oriented practise and services in mental health care is the conceptual recovery framework CHIME, which contains five critical elements in the recovery process.
There are eleven crucial areas where music might aid the healing process: Emotions of equality, social and emotional well-being, tolerance, hope, and social action, as well as moments of flow and peak experience, moments of significance, continuity, and potentials rather than constraints. This essay comes to the conclusion that while creating and utilising music activities in mental health recovery services, experience knowledge of music activities from the viewpoints of service users is crucial knowledge. The focus of this essay is on the positive ways that music can aid in the processes of mental health rehabilitation, even though it is acknowledged that music-related activities can also have unintentional negative effects.
Title:
Understanding the Association between Musical Sophistication and Well-Being in Music Students
Author: Michel A. Cara & Constanza Lobos & Mario Varas & Oscar Torres
Literature Review
In the university setting, discussions about life quality and mental health present new educational difficulties. Chilean public policy recognises the necessity of monitoring college freshmen who may be at risk for academic failure (Law 20. 903). Students’ transitional experiences must consequently be guided in order to enhance their quality of life. The current study, which employs a mixed-methods approach, examines the relationship between musical sophistication (Ollen, 2006), students’ well-being, and the performance of first-year music education students (n = 25). A well-being assessment tool called the PERMA-profiler and the Ollen Musical Sophistication questionnaire were also used.
Seven interviews were done to gather comprehensive information regarding learning processes and educational demands. The findings show a negative relationship between musical complexity and unpleasant emotions (such as anxiety and rage) and loneliness. Less consistent academic performance, difficulty with identity development, and a decreased desire to take on new challenges outside of musical learning are all symptoms of this. We came to the conclusion that understanding and promoting the educational transition process as well as the wellbeing of student music teachers require knowledge of and observation of students’ prior musical experience.
Title:
EEG Emotion Recognition Applied to the Effect Analysis of Music on Emotion Changes in Psychological Healthcare
Author: Tie Hua Zhou & Wenlong Liang & Hangyu Liu & Ling Wang & Keun Ho Ryu & Kwang Woo Nam
Literature Review
Many people are turning to music therapy to improve their physical health. Based on electroencephalogram (EEG) signals, emotion semantic recognition is more objective and directly informs the user of their actual emotional state. In order to increase the accuracy of emotional judgements and further explore the possible influence correlations between music and emotions, a music therapy method that involves emotion semantic matching between the EEG data and music audio signal was suggested. With the help of 32 EEG channels, the suggested EER model (EEG-based Emotion Recognition Model) was able to recognise 20 different emotional states, with an average identification accuracy of above 90% and 80%, respectively.
Based on nine different combinations of musical features, the proposed music-based emotion classification model (MEC model) could categorise eight common musical emotion types with an average classification accuracy of over 90%. The results of the analysis of the semantic mapping in relation to the effects of various musical genres on emotional changes from various viewpoints based on the two models revealed that the joy genre of music video could enhance fear, disgust, mania, and trust emotions into surprise or intimacy emotions, whereas the sad genre of music video could reduce intimacy to the fear emotion.
Title:
Mind-Wandering during Personal Music Listening in Everyday Life: Music-Evoked Emotions Predict Thought Valence
Author: Liila Taruffi
Literature Review
Research has demonstrated a connection between mind-wandering, low mood, and poor wellbeing, underscoring the need of looking into situations or instruments that can elicit uplifting ideas and imagery. Despite the fact that music is a viable choice, there is still little research on the subject. The few studies that have been published have mostly used tasks that involve listening to music in a lab or online. In order to examine if music might encourage positive types of mind-wandering and learn more about its experiential qualities, the experience sampling approach for the first time to record mind-wandering during personal music listening in everyday life was employed.
Over the course of ten days, 26 participants used a smartphone application to record their thoughts, feelings, and moods as they engaged in ordinary activities like listening to music. The software was connected to a music playlist that had been made especially to promote tranquilly and good feelings. The findings revealed that, overall, mind-wandering elicited in musical and non-musical environments exhibited similar traits, however some slight variations were also noted. Most crucially, music-evoked emotions predicted thought valence, demonstrating the power of music as a tool for emotion-based thought regulation. These findings have significant implications for both everyday music consumption and the use of music in therapeutic therapies.
Title:
The Intervention of Music Education on Students’ Mental Health Based on Fuzzy Computing
Author: Ying Wang & Sagheer Abbas
Literature Review
People sometimes use music as a means of expressing and conveying their sentiments. It not only fosters intelligence, personality development, and sentimental growth in students, but it also has a powerful impact on their spiritual health. Music education has emerged as a trailblazer in the use of psychological intervention for kids as a crucial component of high-quality education in schools. By using the emotional imagery that different types of music convey, music education may foster sentiment and a vibrant and upbeat attitude. It plays a unique role that other academic subjects cannot fill. However there is currently little research on what kind of music might successfully affect students’ mental health, and the current music education in schools solely concentrates on the distribution of music knowledge.
This paper investigates the intervention research of music education on students’ mental health based on fuzzy computing in order to be able to select music that is efficient for students’ mental health intervention in music education. This study analyses musical features like average pitch, average pitch intensity, melody direction, pitch stability value, rhythm intensity, and beat to classify music using fuzzy computing, identify the genres of music that can enhance students’ mental health, and validate the findings through experiments. The study’s findings demonstrate that using appropriate music to address students’ mental health issues can significantly improve those issues. Following the intervention, student psychological status scores are 0.73 times higher than they were before. It supports the reliability of the research.
Title:
Music Is Life—Follow-Up Qualitative Study on Parental Experiences of Creative Music Therapy in the Neonatal Period
Author: Friederike Barbara Haslbeck & Lars Schmidli & Hans Ulrich Bucher & Dirk Bassler
Literature Review
Extremely preterm (EP) newborns’ developmental challenges and the ensuing financial impact on their families are significant global health problems. There is a need for social-emotional support strategies like family-integrated creative music therapy (CMT). We want to: (1) understand the parental viewpoints on the use of CMT with EP infants throughout the newborn hospitalisation period; and (2) investigate any potential long-term effects of CMT. Six families from varied backgrounds had their perspectives examined using a qualitative design. When the infants were old enough to go to school, semi-structured interviews were conducted. Three main themes, each with three sub-themes, were determined using an inductive-deductive thematic analysis:
(1) the benefits of CMT for newborns, parents, and parental bonding; (2) the attitude towards CMT, which ranges from being open-minded to endorsing it as a supplemental therapy; and (3) the observation of generally good infant development despite specific developmental delay difficulties. The research highlights the beneficial and formative effects of CMT on babies and parents in the demanding NICU setting and afterwards. By targeted, early nurturing musical interactions, capacity building, and positive reinforcement, CMT may enable positive transformation in the parents. Through early family integration, resource-based techniques like CMT, additional study may assist to discover and implement possibly modifiable factors for bettering healthcare in this vulnerable group.
Title:
Music Listening Behavior, Health, Hearing and Otoacoustic Emission Levels
Author: Kathleen Hutchinson Marron & Brittany Sproat & Danielle Ross & Sarah Wagner & Helaine Alessio
Literature Review
In this study, hearing levels, otoacoustic emission levels, and listening behaviours associated with the use of personal listening devices (PLDs) in people with varied levels of fitness were compared. Volume level was directly measured, and PLD usage time was approximated. The analyses also included biomarkers of fitness-related health. This study included 115 participants, ranging in age from 18 to 84. PLD users and non-PLD users were separated into two subgroups of the subjects. Both teams underwent fitness and health-related examinations, including audiological exams. Age-adjusted statistics were used to find the causes of hearing levels because the groups of PLD users and non-PLD users had different mean ages.
In comparison to listening and fitness-related health indicators, age was the most important predictor of hearing levels. Although PLD users who listened for less than 8 hours per week at levels under 80 dBA were shown to have superior hearing, PLD user status had no bearing on hearing tests. Additional factors that were linked to hearing levels included the number of loud situations, the number of years spent listening to PLD, and the usage of earplugs. Lastly, while body mass index came close to statistical significance but fell short, a healthy waist-to-hip ratio was a significant predictor of better hearing.
Title:
Effects of a Music-Based Rhythmic Auditory Stimulation on Gait and Balance in Subacute Stroke
Author: Samira Gonzalez-Hoelling & Carme Bertran-Noguer & Gloria Reig-Garcia & Rosa Suñer-Soler
Literature Review
After a stroke, problems in gait and balance are typical. This study sought to determine how subacute stroke patients’ gait characteristics and walking capacity would be affected by rhythmic auditory stimulation (RAS) based on music in addition to traditional physiotherapy. In this single-blind, historical controlled trial, 55 individuals were enrolled who had experienced a stroke during the previous three weeks. Patients from 2019 (n = 28) received music-based RAS three times per week, whereas patients from 2018 (n = 27) served as the historical control group. During hospitalisation, both groups received 11 hours of standard physiotherapy each week. Gait and balance metrics, as well as walking ability, were the main outcomes. Trunk control, assistive technology, functional independence, stroke severity, and disability were secondary outcomes.
Results: Neither the gait nor the balance characteristics, nor the secondary outcomes, showed any between-group differences. In the Functional Ambulation Category, there were significant differences between the groups: the intervention group (mean SD; 3.43 1.17) improved more than the control group (mean SD; 2.48 1.09) (p = 0.002). Our findings indicate that music-based RAS combined with conventional physiotherapy may improve the walking ability of subacute stroke patients when compared to conventional physiotherapy alone. However, this treatment is not more efficient than conventional physiotherapy at improving gait and balance.
Conclusion
A social capital approach to analyse the relationship between musical performance and health communication, drawing on ethnographic fieldwork with kanyeleng fertility society performers and health workers in The Gambia (2012–2013). It is argued that performance has a critical role in reducing the negative effects of interventions, and that music facilitates health communication. Music also has a wide range of therapeutic benefits, such as lower anxiety, unwind the body and mind, and improving memory. To analyse the positive impacts of music on work performance, this study will first discover how music increases productivity, focus, and creativity in the office, and then apply musical models to analyse these benefits. The context for investigating music-related activities as a contribution to recovery-oriented practise and services in mental health care is the conceptual recovery framework CHIME, which contains five critical elements in the recovery process.
Music therapy can aid in mental health rehabilitation, but can also have negative effects. This essay focuses on the positive ways music can aid, such as emotions of equality, social and emotional well-being, tolerance, hope, and social action. Chilean public policy recognises the need to monitor college freshmen for academic failure. Seven interviews were done to gather comprehensive information regarding learning processes and educational demands, and the findings show a negative relationship between musical complexity and unpleasant emotions. To improve physical health, many people are turning to music therapy, which involves emotion semantic matching between the EEG data and music audio signal.
A music therapy method is suggested with the help of 32 EEG channels, the suggested EER model. Music is a popular choice for emotional changes, and the proposed music-based emotion classification model (MEC model) categorises eight common musical emotion types with an average classification accuracy of over 90%. The results of the analysis of the semantic mapping in relation to the effects of various musical genres on emotional changes revealed that the joy genre of music video could enhance fear, disgust, mania, and trust emotions into surprise or intimacy emotions, whereas the sad genre of Music video could reduce intimacy to the fear emotion. Research has demonstrated a connection between mind-wandering, low mood, and poor wellbeing, underscoring the need of looking into situations or instruments that can elicit uplifting ideas and imagery. Despite this, there is still little research on the subject, and 26 participants used a smartphone application to record their thoughts, feelings, and moods as they engaged in ordinary activities like listening to music over the course of ten days.
Music education has become an important component of high-quality education in schools, as it can foster sentiment and a vibrant and upbeat attitude. Mind-wandering elicited in musical and non-musical environments were found to predict thought valence, demonstrating the power of music as a tool for emotion-based thought regulation. Music education can also have a powerful impact on spiritual health, although there is currently little research on what kind of music might successfully affect students’ mental health.
Rhythmic auditory stimulation (RAS) based on music combined with conventional physiotherapy may improve the walking ability of subacute stroke patients when compared to conventional physiotherapy alone. Results showed that the intervention group improved more than the control group in the Functional Ambulation Category, but this treatment is not more efficient than conventional physiotherapy at improving gait and balance.
References
McConnell, Bonnie B., 2016. “Music and health communication in The Gambia: A social capital approach,” Social Science & Medicine, Elsevier, vol. 169(C), pages 132-140.
Verica Nedelkovska, 2019. “The Impact Of Music On Increasing Work Productivity,” Economics and Management, Faculty of Economics, SOUTH-WEST UNIVERSITY “NEOFIT RILSKI”, BLAGOEVGRAD, vol. 16(2), pages 25-30.
Janne Brammer Damsgaard & Anita Jensen, 2021. “Music Activities and Mental Health Recovery: Service Users’ Perspectives Presented in the CHIME Framework,” IJERPH, MDPI, vol. 18(12), pages 1-14, June.
Michel A. Cara & Constanza Lobos & Mario Varas & Oscar Torres, 2022. “Understanding the Association between Musical Sophistication and Well-Being in Music Students,” IJERPH, MDPI, vol. 19(7), pages 1-23, March.
Tie Hua Zhou & Wenlong Liang & Hangyu Liu & Ling Wang & Keun Ho Ryu & Kwang Woo Nam, 2022. “EEG Emotion Recognition Applied to the Effect Analysis of Music on Emotion Changes in Psychological Healthcare,” IJERPH, MDPI, vol. 20(1), pages 1-20, December.
Liila Taruffi, 2021. “Mind-Wandering during Personal Music Listening in Everyday Life: Music-Evoked Emotions Predict Thought Valence,” IJERPH, MDPI, vol. 18(23), pages 1-22, November.
Ying Wang & Sagheer Abbas, 2022. “The Intervention of Music Education on Students’ Mental Health Based on Fuzzy Computing,” Mathematical Problems in Engineering, Hindawi, vol. 2022, pages 1-11, August.
Friederike Barbara Haslbeck & Lars Schmidli & Hans Ulrich Bucher & Dirk Bassler, 2021. “Music Is Life—Follow-Up Qualitative Study on Parental Experiences of Creative Music Therapy in the Neonatal Period,” IJERPH, MDPI, vol. 18(12), pages 1-20, June.
Kathleen Hutchinson Marron & Brittany Sproat & Danielle Ross & Sarah Wagner & Helaine Alessio, 2014. “Music Listening Behavior, Health, Hearing and Otoacoustic Emission Levels,” IJERPH, MDPI, vol. 11(8), pages 1-16, July.
Samira Gonzalez-Hoelling & Carme Bertran-Noguer & Gloria Reig-Garcia & Rosa Suñer-Soler, 2021. “Effects of a Music-Based Rhythmic Auditory Stimulation on Gait and Balance in Subacute Stroke,” IJERPH, MDPI, vol. 18(4), pages 1-14, February.