The Effects Of Music Therapy On Dementia Patients With...

In this qualitative randomized clinical study, Vink, Zuidersma, Boersma, de Jonge, Zuidema, and Slaets (2013) illustrate the effects of music therapy on dementia patients with general recreational daily activities. Subjects have chosen dementia patients for this study (n = 94) and they classified into two groups in which one group was specific for music therapy (n = 47), another group allocated from recreational activities (n = 34). Some of the subjects are excluded from the study because subject data was missing and therefore, deceased. Data was collected and analyzed from 77 subjects. In this randomized clinical study, intensity of music and type (folk or classical with specific musical parameters) has not changed in the study,†¦show more content†¦This purpose is relevant to nursing since nurses are a part of the patients’ lives every day. They can help the patient maintain quality of life. Researchers argued that out of 77 dementia patients, 43 gave randomized music therapy and 34 undergone general activities. They finally concluded that greater reduction in agitated behavior during music therapy from one-hour session to 4-hour intervention session compared to general activities group. It has clearly observed that this decrease between two groups are not statistically significant (A. C. Vink et al., 2013, p. 1031). Literature Review A comprehensive literature review with sufficient depth and breadth was included in this quantitative study. A variety of previous researchers has provided evidence for the long-term effects of the music therapy on dementia patients and on their general recreational effects. According to Raglio et al 2010, it has illustrated that music therapist potentially implements musical parameters such as tempo, mode for activating social interaction, and well-being in older dementia patients finally described that physiological catecholamines, cytokines have profound effect on autonomous nervous system when stimulated by music. Casby et al 1994 have described that musical invention causes changes in the agitated behaviors in older dementia patients. Previous literature has profoundly described about the long term effects and physiological effects with