Music therapy – Introduction

Anne Horne-Thompson
Anne Horne-Thompson
Music therapists use music as a treatment aimed at promoting good health and wellbeing. People respond to music in a wide variety of ways; responses can be physical, emotional or cognitive. Music therapists use both live and recorded music to facilitate change and well-being. Anne Horne-Thompson is a music therapist who works with people with terminal illnesses.

The key question Anne wanted to answer was:

Can music therapy reduce anxiety in terminally ill patients?

Timeline

2003 Study design and Ethics approval
March, 2004 Data collection commences
March, 2005 Data collection completed and Data analysis commences