The purpose of this study was to investigate the effects of music therapy program on the patients with schizophrenia. The influence of music therapy to the subjective-life-satisfaction rate was examined and analyzed.
The study was conducted in a ps...
The purpose of this study was to investigate the effects of music therapy program on the patients with schizophrenia. The influence of music therapy to the subjective-life-satisfaction rate was examined and analyzed.
The study was conducted in a psychiatric hospital over a 3-month period. The total of thirty inpatients with a DSM-Ⅳ diagnosis of schizophrenia was randomly assigned to two groups. The experimental group(n=16) received music therapy program twice a week during 6 weeks, and the control group(n=14) did not. The instrument used for measuring the subjective-life-satisfaction of patients was KmSWN(Korean Modification of Subjective Well-Being Scale in Patients with Schizophrenia under Neuroleptics)which was originally developed by the team of Naber, Walther, Kircher, Hayek, and Holzbach in 1994 and then, was modified and standardized by Yoon Jin-Sang, Kook Seung-Hee, Lee Hyung-Young, Lee Chul and Paik In-Ho in 1998. The KmSWN of each subject was measured before and after the music therapy program. Excluding the patients who responded insincerely and were incapable of producing any valid data, 23 patients were included for final analysis.
The results showed that the patients in the experimental group, compared with those in the control group, demonstrated significant improvements in the scores of self-control, emotional regulation, and the total scores of KmSWN(p<.05). In the scores of mental functioning, physical functioning, and social integration, the patients in the experimental group also showed more improvements than those in the control group, but the difference between two groups was not significant(p>.05).