SynthesisEuropean journal of public health2023
The role of music in promoting health and wellbeing: a systematic review and meta-analysis.
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- The effects of cultural engagement on health and well-being: a systematic review.Frontiers in public health · 2024Pooled it
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- Orchestral Musicians' Community Engagement as a Means for Flourishing: A Phenomenological Study.Journal of community psychology · 2026Article
- When Music Loses Its Pleasure: Hippocampal Cingulum White Matter as a Structural Mediator of Musical Reward Decline in Aging.bioRxiv : the preprint server for biology · 2026Article
- A scoping review and categorization of music and health psychometric inventories.Psychology of music · 2026Article
- Resonance across cultures and faiths: examining the violin music's role in emotional, psychological, and spiritual well-being for sustainable societies.Frontiers in psychiatry · 2026Article
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- What plays beneath: mental health burden, personal resources, and treatment utilization among professional musicians and music students.Frontiers in psychology · 2026Article
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- Music-based interventions at workplaces: a scoping review.BMC complementary medicine and therapies · 2025Article
- Do music-related leisure activities influence cardiovascular disease risk, blood pressure and heart rate in older adults?International journal of cardiology. Cardiovascular risk and prevention · 2025Article
- The Influence of Music on Mental Health Through Neuroplasticity: Mechanisms, Clinical Implications, and Contextual Perspectives.Brain sciences · 2025Review
- The art of sleep: examining sleep strategies in the general population with a focus on the use of music for sleep.Journal of sleep research · 2025Article
- Community music as health promotion: equity-related insights from urban context in Australia.Health promotion international · 2025Article
- Perfecting Sensory Restoration and the Unmet Need for Personalized Medicine in Cochlear Implant Users: A Narrative Review.Brain sciences · 2025Review
- Use of Meludia to evaluate the effect of music training in cochlear implant users: study protocol of a randomised controlled study.BMJ open · 2025Article
- Arts and creativity and its impact on older people's health and wellbeing: commentary on a systematic review.Practice nursing · 2025Article
- Music-based emotion regulation: a bibliometric systematic review (2000-2024).Frontiers in psychology · 2025Article
- A Bibliometric Analysis of Music's Role in Promoting Well-Being in Health Science Research.F1000Research · 2025Review
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Abstract
backgroundThe higher disease burden and related costs due to an increasing aging population have placed tremendous pressure on the healthcare systems worldwide. Given that music, both listened and actively performed, promotes and maintains good health and wellbeing among the population, we sought to perform a systematic review that would assess its biopsychosocial effects on a population over 40 years of age.
methodsA comprehensive search of peer-reviewed articles up to April 2021 was conducted on six electronic databases (i.e. Cochrane, MEDLINE, PubMed, PsycINFO, Web of Science and Scopus). Our study population only included healthy adults of 40 years and older. A total of 11 randomized controlled trials (RCTs) matched the inclusion criteria and were therefore analyzed.
resultsDespite the heterogeneity of the methodologies used in the selected studies, our findings suggest that active musical participation can lead to beneficial effects on both cognitive and psychosocial functioning, whereas the positive impact of listening to music seems to be predominantly restricted to the cognitive domain.
conclusionsAlthough our results are consistent with both active and passive music activities favouring health and wellbeing in individuals 40 years old and over, future prospective RCTs, employing more uniformed and sensitive measurements, should allow us to better gauge the role of music participation in healthy aging and longevity, especially in countries with a high population density of elderly people.
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