Music therapy – Introduction

• Introduction
• Background
• Study Design
• Data Collection
• Analysis
• Data
• Glossary

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