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. 2020 Nov:293:113464.
doi: 10.1016/j.psychres.2020.113464. Epub 2020 Sep 19.

The effectiveness of adjunct music therapy for patients with schizophrenia: A meta-analysis

Ruiying Jia  1 , Dandan Liang  1 , Jingfen Yu  1 , Guangli Lu  2 , Zihui Wang  1 , Zhen Wu  1 , Haitao Huang  1 , Chaoran Chen  1
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The effectiveness of adjunct music therapy for patients with schizophrenia: A meta-analysis

Ruiying Jia et al. Psychiatry Res. 2020 Nov.

Abstract

To evaluate the efficacy of adjunct music therapy on patients with schizophrenia, we conducted a meta-analysis of currently available randomized controlled trials and controlled clinical trials. Eight electronic databases (CNKI, PubMed, EMBASE, Cochrane Library, PsycINFO, Web of Science, Psychology and behavioural Sciences Collection, and Medline) were systematically searched from inception to January 2020. Standard mean difference (SMD) with 95% confidence interval (CI) values were used to evaluate the effects of music therapy. Finally, we selected eighteen studies comprising 1,212 participants comparing with control conditions. The meta-analysis demonstrated that adjunct music therapy significantly improved total symptoms (SMD = -0.48, 95%CI: -0.74 to -0.22), negative symptoms (SMD=-0.56, 95%CI: -0.72 to -0.40), depression symptoms (SMD = -0.35, 95% CI: -0.54 to -0.17), and quality of life (SMD = 0.35, 95%CI: 0.07 to 0.62) in people with schizophrenia compared with the control group. In addition, the meta-analysis indicated no publication bias for total symptoms, negative symptoms, and positive symptoms. The sensitivity analysis showed that the result was reliable. But the quality of evidence is still low, more well-designed studies with larger sample size and high quality are needed to confirm the efficiency of adjunct music therapy in treating schizophrenia.

Keywords: Adjunct therapy; Meta-analysis; Music therapy; Schizophrenia.

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