/ Basic studies on music therapy using body sonic: Examination of clinical effects through State-Trait Anxiety Inventory

Author(s): Sakai, Makoto, Takeichi, Masashi

Journal/Book: Kyushu Neuro psychiatry. 1990; 36: 155-160.

Abstract: Examined the effects of music therapy administered to 59 psychiatric patients and 30 normal Ss by the use of a body sonicator. The experimental groups consisted of 20 schizophrenics (SZs), 19 neurotics (NRs), and 20 normal Ss; the control groups consisted of 10 SZs, 10 NRs, and 10 normal Ss. The experimental SZs and NRs showed a statistically significant decrease in the State-Trait Anxiety Inventory scores after listening for 15 min in the body sonicator to music composed from the sounds of a stream and the voices of birds, while no significant decrease in the scores was found in the control groups. The scores of the neurotic group decreased the most. (English abstract)

Note: music therapy; State Trait Anxiety Inventory scores; schizophrenic vs neurotic patients

Keyword(s): Schizophrenia ; neurosis ; music therapy; anxiety ; adulthood

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