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Rehabilitative Effect of Music Therapy for Residual Schizophrenia

A One-Month Randomised Controlled Trial in Shanghai

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  06 August 2018

Wenzhong Tang ,
Xinwei Yao  and
Zhanpei Zheng
Wenzhong Tang*
Affiliation:
Rehabilitation Department
Xinwei Yao
Affiliation:
Shanghai City Mental Health Centre
Zhanpei Zheng
Affiliation:
Department of Psychiatry, Shanghai Second Medical University, and Vice-Director, Shanghai Mental Health Centre
*
∗Shanghai Mental Health Centre, 600 Wan Ping Nan Road, Shanghai 200030, PRC
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Abstract

Seventy-six in-patients who had the residual subtype of schizophrenia were randomly assigned to a treatment group or a control group. Both groups received standard medication as prescribed by their treating physicians, but the treatment group also received a one-month course of music therapy that included both passive listening to music and active participation in the singing of popular songs with other patients. Outcome was evaluated by four nurses using Chinese versions of the Scale for Assessment of Negative Symptoms and the in-patient version of the World Health Organization's Disability Assessment Scale. Music therapy significantly diminished patients' negative symptoms, increased their ability to converse with others, reduced their social isolation, and increased their level of interest in external events. As music therapy has no side-effects and is relatively inexpensive, it merits further evaluation and wider application.

Type
II. Rehabilitation Interventions in In-Patient Settings
Information
The British Journal of Psychiatry , Volume 165 , Issue S24: Psychiatric Rehabilitation in China , August 1994 , pp. 38 - 44
Copyright
Copyright © 1994 The Royal College of Psychiatrists 

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