PMID- 30351238 OWN - NLM STAT- MEDLINE DCOM- 20190312 LR - 20191210 IS - 1943-281X (Electronic) IS - 0033-2747 (Linking) VI - 81 IP - 3 DP - 2018 Fall TI - Acute Effects of Music Therapy in Subjects With Psychosis During Inpatient Treatment. PG - 218-227 LID - 10.1080/00332747.2018.1502559 [doi] AB - OBJECTIVE: Previous studies have proposed music therapy (MT) as a useful rehabilitation approach for patients with psychosis, but few studies have focused on acute settings. The aim of the study was to evaluate the effects of a structured MT program on clinical and social functioning indices of patients with psychosis while hospitalized in an emergency psychiatric ward. METHOD: The intervention followed a modified approach to Benenzon's MT model and was delivered biweekly to 61 patients with psychosis consecutively admitted to our ward. Before and after the MT program, all subjects were administered the Brief Psychiatric Rating Scale (BPRS) for assessment of general psychopathology, the Hospital Anxiety and Depression Scale (HADS) for affective symptomatology, the Clinical Global Impression (CGI) scale for severity of symptoms, and the Global Assessment of Functioning (GAF) scale for psychosocial functioning. RESULTS: A repeated-measures analysis of variance revealed that patients who underwent the MT intervention had a statistically significant reduction of BPRS and CGI scores, compared to the control group; furthermore, the BPRS anxiety/depression factor and the HADS scores for affective symptomatology significantly decreased after the observation period compared to controls. CONCLUSION: Our results are in line with previous studies showing favorable effects of MT in patients with psychosis, in particular on affective symptomatology, but extend this observation to an emergency setting with short periods of hospital stay. FAU - Volpe, Umberto AU - Volpe U FAU - Gianoglio, Carlo AU - Gianoglio C FAU - Autiero, Luca AU - Autiero L FAU - Marino, Maria Luisa AU - Marino ML FAU - Facchini, Diana AU - Facchini D FAU - Mucci, Armida AU - Mucci A FAU - Galderisi, Silvana AU - Galderisi S LA - eng PT - Journal Article DEP - 20181023 PL - United States TA - Psychiatry JT - Psychiatry JID - 0376470 SB - IM MH - Adult MH - Affective Symptoms/*therapy MH - Bipolar Disorder/*therapy MH - Borderline Personality Disorder/*therapy MH - Emergency Services, Psychiatric/*methods MH - Female MH - Humans MH - Inpatients MH - Middle Aged MH - Music Therapy/*methods MH - *Outcome Assessment, Health Care MH - *Psychiatric Department, Hospital MH - Psychotic Disorders/*therapy MH - Schizophrenia/*therapy EDAT- 2018/10/24 06:00 MHDA- 2019/03/13 06:00 CRDT- 2018/10/24 06:00 PHST- 2018/10/24 06:00 [pubmed] PHST- 2019/03/13 06:00 [medline] PHST- 2018/10/24 06:00 [entrez] AID - 10.1080/00332747.2018.1502559 [doi] PST - ppublish SO - Psychiatry. 2018 Fall;81(3):218-227. doi: 10.1080/00332747.2018.1502559. Epub 2018 Oct 23.