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Ivy Lara

Trishia Briones

ENGL 1302 222

2/28/2023

Annotated Bibliography

Aalbers, Sonja, et al. “Music Therapy for Depression.” Cochrane Database of Systematic

Reviews, vol. 2017, no. 11, 2017, pp. CD004517–CD004517,

https://doi.org/10.1002/14651858.CD004517.pub3.

Depression is very common in young and mature adults. It’s a mental illness that can

affect a person’s life very drastically. Depression can be very bad and can lead up to

ending your own life. In this article, they talk about how music can help lower depression

and how musical therapy can help people with this disorder. It can help with emotions

and how we feel throughout the day. It can help moderate what you are feeling and can

be a coping mechanism for many people. In this article they had people who were

struggling with depression participate in a clinical trial to see if music therapy helps

moderate depression. They put music therapy against other types of therapy types to see

which would work best. It was found that it was the best way to reduce depression

symptoms and can be found that it is better than psychological therapy.

Arisdiani, Diffa Risqa, et al. “Music Therapy as Nursing Intervention in Improving Postpartum

Mothers Comfort.” Media Keperawatan Indonesia, vol. 4, no. 1, 2021, pp. 72–82,

https://doi.org/10.26714/mki.4.1.2021.72-82.
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Mothers are almost always in pain after giving birth. This is called postpartum, and it

happens after birth. It is when you are recovering from labor and everything in your body

is trying to get back to its normal self. One of the ways mothers deals with postpartum is

by listening to music. It has been proven to help mothers go through this pain after giving

birth. In this study the used classical music in their experiment. They used musical

therapy to give women comfort after birth. They found in their experiment that Mozart’s

Music was the best type of music that helps with post-partum pain. Its slow, comforting

and it’s the just right music to help with this specific pain. It shows that it brings down

anxiety and pain. It explains the ways of how it bring s down pain levels and how it can

be calming for postpartum mothers.

Bradt, Joke, et al. “Music Interventions for Improving Psychological and Physical Outcomes in

Cancer Patients.” Cochrane Database of Systematic Reviews, vol. 2016, no. 8, 2016, pp.

CD006911–CD006911, https://doi.org/10.1002/14651858.CD006911.pub3.

Cancer is a deadly and very scary thing for a human being to go through. It’s a very hard

process for people to go though. It can be physically and emotionally draining for a

person. Going through treatments can find it sad and can go into depression. In this

article they talked about how music has helped cancer patients through their treatments

and illnesses. In this article they experiment on different types of ways to listen to music

while in treatment. They are going to see what it does to the cancer patient

psychologically and physically. They found that musical therapy helps with reducing

anxiety during treatment and with depression. The physical outcomes showed less pain

and was very beneficial for the patient. They chose different patients and the got their

results from them.

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Hohmann, Louisa, et al. “Effects of Music Therapy and Music-Based Interventions in the

Treatment of Substance Use Disorders: A Systematic Review.” PLoS ONE, vol. 12, no.

11, 2017, pp. e0187363–e0187363, https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0187363.

This article focuses on how music effects people. They conducted many tests to see how

music helps people with motivation, focus and helpfulness. They are using MT and

MBIs, which is type of music intervention. They got patients with SUD with different

ages and are very diverse. They used different ways to summarize their experiments as

well. They found the results to be inconsistent on their patients or people they were

experimenting on because of the diversity in their studies. Overall, they found that there

are some benefits to it like emotion. People who use substances need a coping

mechanism and music can help with that. Music therapy can help with that. It is show

that it can be more helpful that regular therapy. They use different types of music to see

which would work best. The music intervention or MBIs or MT showed that it can help

people with substance use disorder.

Kawakami, Ai, et al. “Sad Music Induces Pleasant Emotion.” Frontiers in Psychology, vol. 4,

2013, pp. 311–311, https://doi.org/10.3389/fpsyg.2013.00311.

In this article it talks about how sad music can induce pleasure to people. It is weird

because people think sad music is a sad coping mechanism, but in this article, it shows

that it is pleasurable to people. They conducted an experiment where the participants

listened to sad music. It is found that people lose themselves to the music and its just

calming. They conducted an experiment with participants who were college students and

musicians. They were sat in a computer to listen to what looks like more classical music.

They were instructed to journal how they were feeling at that moment, when listening to
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the music. Music can show emotion and provide proof that it can in fact change people’s

moods even if it is sad music that is playing. They conducted this experiment because

there wasn’t enough evidence that sad music causes unpleasant emotion.

Pang, Peijie. “A Method of Personal Music Psychological Recognition Based on Psychological

and Physiological Signals.” Scientific Programming, vol. 2022, 2022, pp. 1–7,

https://doi.org/10.1155/2022/8577034.

In this article it talks about how music phycological recognition affects psychological

and physiological signals. They performed an experiment on how music can be beneficial

and how it affects the body like the raise in blood pressure levels. It says that it can help

improve people’s moods. It also explains how people have an outlet when it comes to

music. It also explains how music works or the article describes what music is. Music has

many ways it can impact someone. It shows different ways music influences in people

like how it has an influence on sports, and emotions. There was an experiment conducted

and had the participants listen to different genres of music. They wanted to prove that it

promotes phycological and physiological emotions. They saw how emotions were put

into play with slow tempo, fast tempo, and moderate tempo. They tested it on sports

players as well to show that music help as well in sports.

Ritter, S. .., and S. Ferguson. “Happy Creativity: Listening to Happy Music Facilitates Divergent

Thinking.” PLoS ONE, vol. 12, no. 9, 2017, pp. e0182210–e0182210,

https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0182210.

In this article it talks about how happy music can provide or create divergent thinking.

They tested their experiment on four different types of music to see which created more
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creativity. They showed how music can help the brain think creatively and how it doesn’t

when its not stimulated with music. Participants were put with music and some without

music to see who would do the best. It can be put into your life and it does provide

creative thinking. The article explains how music has many benefits to cognitive

response. They talked about how the increase in fluency can improve or make depressed

or elated mood. For the experiment t they had a total of 155 participants and had them

listen to happy, calm, sad music and it showed that some had negative and positive

effects. For the results they had based it on experience, creativity, mood, and music

ratings.

Schäfer, Thomas, et al. “The Psychological Functions of Music Listening.” Frontiers in

Psychology, vol. 4, 2013, pp. 511–511, https://doi.org/10.3389/fpsyg.2013.00511.

This article talks about how music has different functions towards humans. They talk

about how music is a very common human behavior. A lot of people listen to music and

it is most of the population. It shows how people approach music and the way it works.

They show different ways that functions of music has been recorded like surveys and

many articles as well. The experiment was provided to the participants and each

participant had to review the surveys. They had to rate them from a scale from 0 to 6.

would be that they fully agreed and 0 being not agreeing at all. The results were

reviewed and there was a graph made to see how they were rated. They were in the

middle. Self-awareness, social relatedness, and mood regulation were the 3 distinct

functions for music. Self awareness and mood regulation were the highest out of all of

them. Most people chose those two.

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Sittler, Mareike C., et al. “Is Empathy Involved in Our Emotional Response to Music? The Role

of the PRL Gene, Empathy, and Arousal in Response to Happy and Sad Music.” Psych

musicology, vol. 29, no. 1, 2019, pp. 10–21, https://doi.org/10.1037/pmu0000230.

Empathy is an important factor for the emotional part of music They tested one hundred

and sixty participants to see if empathy is really shown when listening to music. The

experiment had people listen to 10 happy songs and 10 sad songs so it could be equal and

see which emotion they felt more. They had them journal down what they were feeling to

get to the results. Empathy is to basically put yourself in someone else’s shoes.

Understand what the other person might be feeling. It happens a lot in music because

that’s how most artist express themselves when they can’t in person. Music is like an

outlet for them. They also talked about genotyping and the types of genes that work best

for the music. They had self-reports for the participants, and they explained how they felt.

It was all also done online through a lab setting but online. They showed the statistics and

all the proof that needed to be shown for this experiment.

Wang, Yisha, et al. “Perioperative Psychological and Music Interventions in Elderly Patients

Undergoing Spinal Anesthesia: Effect on Anxiety, Heart Rate Variability, and

Postoperative Pain.” Yonsei Medical Journal, vol. 55, no. 4, 2014, pp. 1101–05,

https://doi.org/10.3349/ymj.2014.55.4.1101.

This article talked about how elderly patients going through elective surgery do when

listening to music. The are checking how their anxiety levels, and pain levels are. They

have a control group to base the results on. Perioperative pressure and help reduce pain.

This article talked about how music helped elderly patients going through anesthesia

effect their anxiety, heart rate, and pain. They explained how Psychological and music
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intervention worked for elderly and people in general. They discussed how the frequency

power helped elderly patients. They wanted to prove that they can reduce anxiety and

pain towards elderly. They showed how phycological therapy was less effective than

music therapy before surgery helped the elderly. They conducted tests where they had to

be older than 65 and they tested them for anxiety, their heart rate, and pain levels as well.