A5076072714- Music Therapy and Health
- Neuroscience and Music Perception
- Dementia and Cognitive Impairment Research
- Intensive Care Unit Cognitive Disorders
- Art Therapy and Mental Health
- Diverse Music Education Insights
- Autism Spectrum Disorder Research
- Family and Disability Support Research
- EEG and Brain-Computer Interfaces
- Psychotherapy Techniques and Applications
- Mental Health and Patient Involvement
- Speech and Audio Processing
- Family Caregiving in Mental Illness
- Infant Development and Preterm Care
- Child Therapy and Development
- Speech Recognition and Synthesis
- Stroke Rehabilitation and Recovery
- Infant Health and Development
- Child Nutrition and Feeding Issues
- Music and Audio Processing
- Action Observation and Synchronization
- Palliative Care and End-of-Life Issues
- Geriatric Care and Nursing Homes
- Early Childhood Education and Development
- Patient-Provider Communication in Healthcare
Anglia Ruskin University
2015-2024
Fulbourn Hospital
2023-2024
Cambridgeshire and Peterborough NHS Foundation Trust
2023-2024
University of Glasgow
2022
University of Plymouth
2022
Perfect Harmony Health
2019
<h3>Importance</h3> Music therapy may facilitate skills in areas affected by autism spectrum disorder (ASD), such as social interaction and communication. <h3>Objective</h3> To evaluate effects of improvisational music on generalized communication children with ASD. <h3>Design, Setting, Participants</h3> Assessor-blinded, randomized clinical trial, conducted 9 countries enrolling aged 4 to 7 years Children were recruited from November 2011 2015, follow-up between January 2012 2016....
Previous research highlights the importance of staff involvement in psychosocial interventions targeting neuropsychiatric symptoms dementia. Music therapy has shown potential effects, but it is not clear how this intervention can be programmed to involve care within delivery patients' care. This study reports initial feasibility and outcomes from a five month music programme including weekly individual active for people with dementia post-therapy video presentations their carers homes. 17...
This article reports a mixed-methods study of Music Therapy (MT) with preterm infants and their parents in neonatal intensive care unit (NICU) Colombia. The aim was to find out whether live MT during kangaroo had an effect on the physiological outcomes neonates would help decrease anxiety levels improve parent–infant bonding. participants were 36 medically stable born between 28th 34th week gestation parents. quantitative data collection included heart rate, oxygen saturation, weight gain,...
In older adults, dementia and depression are associated with individual distress high societal costs. Music interventions such as group music therapy (GMT) recreational choir singing (RCS) have shown promising effects, but their comparative effectiveness across clinical subgroups is unknown. This trial aims to determine of GMT, RCS combination for care home residents examine heterogeneity treatment effects subgroups.This large, pragmatic, multinational cluster-randomised controlled a 2×2...
Pharmacological interventions to address behavioural and psychological symptoms of dementia (BPSD) can have undesirable side effects, therefore non-pharmacological approaches managing may be preferable. Past studies show that music therapy reduce BPSD, other explored how formal caregivers use in their caring roles. However, no randomised study has examined the effects on BPSD delivered by informal (CGs) home setting. Our project aims need for improved care training cohabiting family CGs...
When children with Autistic Spectrum Disorder (ASD) are assessed in music therapy, significant strengths, potentials and resources emerge that may remain hidden other, more formalised assessments. Therefore, it is becoming necessary to develop a systematic method of describing this responsiveness, order define the expectations therapy. Music therapy particularly important intervention for ASD engage nurture their capacity flexibility, creativity, variability tolerance change, balance...
This article reports the results of a three-arm mixed methods pilot study music therapy with premature infants and their caregivers in Neonatal Intensive Care Unit (NICU) Bogotá, Colombia. The included 19 medically stable babies born between 30th 37th week gestation caregivers. Two intervention groups were compared control group.The objectives to find out whether could help neonates stabilize physiological states mothers reduce anxiety strengthen relationship baby.The data collection babies´...
Preliminary studies have indicated that music therapy may benefit children with autism spectrum disorders (ASD). To examine the effects of improvisational (IMT) on social affect and responsiveness ASD. International, multicentre, three-arm, single-masked randomised controlled trial, including a National Institute for Health Research (NIHR)-funded centre recruited in London east England. Randomisation was via remote service using permuted blocks, stratified by study site. Schools private,...
Relationship quality is important for well-being and of life in couples living with dementia. Home-based music therapy interventions may be conducted the aim enhancing relationship quality. However, effects or influences such are only briefly investigated previous studies. This study's was to identify how a 12-week home-based intervention influence dementia, through an adapted convergent mixed methods design. In this case, 68 participating from HOMESIDE RCT study, four individually recruited...
Objective: To assess the feasibility of a randomized controlled trial to evaluate music therapy as home-based intervention for arm hemiparesis in stroke. Design: A pilot trial, with cross-over design. Randomization by statistician using computer-generated, random numbers concealed opaque envelopes. Setting: Participants’ homes across Cambridgeshire, UK. Subjects: Eleven people stroke and hemiparesis, 3–60 months post stroke, following discharge from community rehabilitation. Interventions:...
While studies have identified strategies that are useful for recruiting people living with dementia, none focused on psychosocial interventions involving arts therapies, or examined the profiles of older in community who consent decline participation, particularly during a global pandemic. We aimed to identify most effective recruitment according participant characteristics and transnational differences develop profile consenting non-consenting participants.Recruitment teams Australia,...
Music therapy can lift mood and reduce agitation for people living with dementia (PwD) in community residential care settings, potentially reducing the prevalence of distress behaviours. However, less is known about impact music on in-patient psychiatric wards PwD.To investigate two PwD.A mixed-methods design was used. Statistical analysis conducted incidents involving behaviours reported as 'disruptive aggressive' 2020, when delivery varied because COVID-19 pandemic. Semi-structured...
Background: Impairment of upper limb function following stroke is more common than lower impairment and also resistant to treatment. Several lab-based studies with patients have produced statistically significant gains in when using musical instrument playing techniques where rhythm acts as an external time-keeper for the priming timing movements. Methods: For this feasibility study a small sample size 14 participants (3 – 60 months post stroke) has been determined through clinical...
Objective Real-life research into the underlying neural dynamics of improvisational music therapy, used with various clinical populations, is largely lacking. This single case study explored within-session differences in musical features and within- between-brain coupling between a Person Dementia (PwD) therapist during therapy session. Methods Dual-EEG from PwD (male, 31 years) was recorded. Note density, pulse clarity synchronicity were extracted audio-visual data. Three therapists...
Music interventions provided by qualified therapists within residential aged care are effective at attenuating behavioural and psychological symptoms (BPSD) of people with dementia (PwD). The impact music on symptom management when family caregivers is unclear.We implemented a community-based, large, pragmatic, international, superiority, single-masked randomised controlled trial to evaluate if caregiver-delivered was superior usual alone (UC) reducing BPSD PwD measured the Neuropsychiatric...
Arts therapies treatments offer patients therapy through primarily nonverbal means (i.e., art forms such as music, art, drama, and dance movement). They are particularly effective when normal communication is absent or has broken down. This study used a randomized control design involved treatment (n=10) (n=15) group. Treatment was one of four arts delivered in group individual format. The authors separate questionnaires, administered over 6-month period, to measure effectiveness. There also...
Together in Sound is a partnership project between the Cambridge Institute for Music Therapy Research at Anglia Ruskin University (ARU) and Saffron Hall Trust, an arts charity based rural Essex, England. Established Autumn 2017, offers music therapy to people living with dementia their companions includes practice-based research element. This co-authored report concerns impact of global COVID-19 pandemic on presents team’s experience moving sessions online March 2020. Continuing provided...
Abstract Background Music therapy has been shown to be effective for multiple clinical endpoints associated with substance use disorder such as craving reduction, emotion regulation, depression, and anxiety, but there are a lack of studies investigating those effects in UK Community Substance Misuse Treatment Services (CSMTSs). Furthermore, is demand identifying music mechanisms change related brain processes treatment. The present study aims evaluate the feasibility acceptability pre-test,...
Background: The number of people living with dementia (PwD) worldwide is expected to double every 20 years. Many continue at home, receiving support from family caregivers who may experience significant stress, simultaneously that the PwD. Meaningful and effective home-based interventions PwD their are needed. development a theory- practice-driven online music intervention (MI) delivered by credentialed therapists, nested within HOMESIDE RCT trial. Methods: Dyads including carer randomised...