title: Effects of group musical therapy on inpatients with chronic psychoses: a controlled study.
abstract: The objective of the present study was to examine the efficacy of group musical therapy for inpatients with DSM-IV schizophrenia or schizoaffective psychosis. Thirty-four therapy group subjects in a ward for long-stay female patients received 15 group musical therapy sessions over 4 months, while 32 waiting group subjects from another ward with the same function were to wait for the sessions until the studied course was completed. The assessment included measures of psychotic symptoms, objective quality of life and subjective musical experiences. Comparison of the groups indicated that significant advantages in the therapy group subjects were detected in some measures concerning personal relations and a subjective sense of participation in a chorus activity. However, the follow-up evaluation suggested that the improvement might not be durable. These findings suggested that the musical therapy had some, but possibly only short-lived, effects on personal relations and musical experiences of chronic psychotic patients.
authors.affiliation: Department of Schizophrenia Research, Tokyo Institute of Psychiatry, Japan. nhayashi55@nifty.com
authors.forename: Naoki
authors.initials: N
authors.lastname: Hayashi
authors.forename: Yoko
authors.initials: Y
authors.lastname: Tanabe
authors.forename: Seishu
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Nakagawa
authors.forename: Maki
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Noguchi
authors.forename: Chikako
authors.initials: C
authors.lastname: Iwata
authors.forename: Yumiko
authors.initials: Y
authors.lastname: Koubuchi
authors.forename: Michiyo
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Watanabe
authors.forename: Miho
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Okui
authors.forename: Keiko
authors.initials: K
authors.lastname: Takagi
authors.forename: Kuniko
authors.initials: K
authors.lastname: Sugita
authors.forename: Keiko
authors.initials: K
authors.lastname: Horiuchi
authors.forename: Aiko
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Sasaki
authors.forename: Izumi
authors.initials: I
authors.lastname: Koike
mesh_terms: D000328:Adult; D000368:Aged; D000369:Aged, 80 and over; D002908:Chronic Disease; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D008875:Middle Aged; D009147:Music Therapy; D011615:Psychotherapy, Group; D011788:Quality of Life; D012559:Schizophrenia / Q000628:therapy*; D012720:Severity of Illness Index; D016896:Treatment Outcome