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- Title
Study of music as an activity in people with dementia in long term care facility in India: A pilot study.
- Authors
Sivaraman, Sruthi; Goswami, S. P.; Gurung, Wrizumani; Jain, Khyathi G.; Sampath, Purva; Pillai, Sunayna
- Abstract
Dementia is a syndrome marked with significant deterioration in memory, thinking, behaviour and the ability to perform everyday activities (World Health Organization, 2019). Music therapy has been researched in the past as a possible viable alternative to pharmacological interventions. The present study uses music activities to treat behavioural and psychological symptoms of Dementia (BPSD) and seeks to understand the efficacy and success of the intervention as a non-pharmacological approach Personality could be defined as those characteristics of the individual that accounts for consistent pattern of feeling, thinking and behaviors that makes him unique. The word personality originated from the latin word 'persona' meaning mask. The field of personality typically addresses three issues, namely, Human universal, Individual differences, and Individual uniqueness. The personality arises from within the individual that remain fairly consistent throughout the life. The research suggested that Personality as a psychological constructbeing influenced by biological processes and needs believed to have an impacton behavior and actions. The current study attempted to look at the implementation of music as an intervention in a long-term care facility for persons with dementia (PwD) in various stages of the disease. Twenty participants (n = 20) with Dementia were recruited from Nightingale's Medical Trust for this study. Participants cognitive and social behaviours were tested pre- and post-intervention using the Mini-Mental State Examination. Participants received forty-minutes group therapy sessions provided by a music therapist once a week. The results of the study show that the social behaviours had considerably improved in majority of the participants as part of the intervention. However, the mean value of the MMSE scores decreased from pre- to post-intervention. Furthermore, the effect size of the intervention was small. This study showed promising results for the efficacy of music activities as a therapeutic intervention, but further indepth research is required to generalise the results. centre for disease control and prevention(CDC,2010),states that by the year of 2010, there is an expectancy rate of 1 in 110,being victims of Introduction
- Subjects
LONG-term care facilities; NIGHTINGALE, Florence, 1820-1910; WORLD Health Organization; CENTERS for Disease Control &; Prevention (U.S.); MUSIC education; GROUP psychotherapy; MUSIC therapy; MUSIC psychology; MINI-Mental State Examination; DEMENTIA
- Publication
Indian Journal of Community Psychology, 2022, Vol 16, Issue 1/2, p61
- ISSN
0974-2719
- Publication type
Article