Depresyon at anxiety, maiibsan ng music therapy

MAAARING unti-unting maibsan ang depresyon at anxiety ng mga taong may dementia sa pamamagitan ng music therapy, ayon sa bagong pag-aaral.

Maaaring mapahusay din ng music therapy ang emotional wellbeing ng mga taong may dementia. Ngunit wala silang natagpuang benepisyo nito kung ang pag-uusapan ay cognition at behavioral issues, gaya ng pagkairita at pagiging agresibo, ayon sa report sa Cochrane Library journal.

Kahit na hindi malaki ang benepisyo ng music therapy ay hindi malaki, “small effects are valuable, too, because even a small improvement or maintaining a certain level while otherwise a decline is expected is very important for people with dementia and those caring for them,” ayon kay study leader na si Jenny van

der Steen, isang mananaliksik sa department of public health and primary care sa Leiden University Medical Center.

“These outcomes are closely linked to quality of life and may be more relevant than improving or delaying decline in cognition for the patients under study - mostly nursing home patients,” sabi pa ni van der Steen.

“The alternative to these behavioral interventions is drugs with black box warning labels saying that they increase the risk of death,” pahayag ni Dr. Alexander Pantelyat, assistant professor ng neurology sa Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine at co-director ng Johns Hopkins Center for Music and Medicine. “The fact that they could be moderately confident that music-based treatments could improve symptoms of depression and overall behavioral problems would make this actionable from my standpoint even though the number of studies was low.”

Hindi na nakakabigla na makatutulong ang music therapy sa mga may dementia, sabi pa ni Pantelyat.

“It’s known that areas that process music in the brain overlap with the emotional areas and those that process language,” dagdag pa niya. “If a song from somebody’s youth is played it’s possible it will bring back memories associated with the first time they heard it. And that speaks to the need for a tailored approach. Not a ‘one song fits all’ approach.”