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Prenatal listening to songs composed for pregnancy and symptoms of anxiety and depression: a pilot study
BACKGROUND: Prenatal anxiety and depression are distressing for the expectant mother and can have adverse effects on her fetus and subsequently, her child. This study aimed to determine whether listening to specially composed songs would be an effective intervention for reducing symptoms of prenatal...
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Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5423008/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/28482901 http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s12906-017-1759-3 |
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description | BACKGROUND: Prenatal anxiety and depression are distressing for the expectant mother and can have adverse effects on her fetus and subsequently, her child. This study aimed to determine whether listening to specially composed songs would be an effective intervention for reducing symptoms of prenatal anxiety and depression. METHODS: Pregnant women were recruited online and randomly assigned to one of two groups: the music group (daily listening to specially composed songs) or control group (daily relaxation) for 12 weeks each. Self-report questionnaires were used to assess symptoms of State and Trait anxiety (Spielberger) and depression (Edinburgh Postnatal Depression Scale (EPDS)). Trait anxiety was measured as the primary outcome, while State anxiety and depression were the secondary outcomes. 111 participants were randomised to each group. 20 participants in the intervention group and 16 participants in the active control group completed the study. RESULTS: The music group demonstrated lower Trait Anxiety (p = .0001) (effect size 0.80), State Anxiety (p = .02) (effect size 0.64), and EPDS (p = .002) (effect size 0.92) scores at week 12 compared to baseline, by paired t test. There were no such changes in the control group. CONCLUSIONS: Though this pilot study had high levels of attrition, the results do suggest that regular listening to relaxing music should be explored further as an effective non-pharmacological means for reducing prenatal anxiety and depression. TRIAL REGISTRATION: ClinicalTrials.gov NCT02776293 LV-001. Registered 17 May 2016. Retrospectively registered. ELECTRONIC SUPPLEMENTARY MATERIAL: The online version of this article (doi:10.1186/s12906-017-1759-3) contains supplementary material, which is available to authorized users. |
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spelling | pubmed-54230082017-05-10 Prenatal listening to songs composed for pregnancy and symptoms of anxiety and depression: a pilot study Nwebube, Chineze Glover, Vivette Stewart, Lauren BMC Complement Altern Med Research Article BACKGROUND: Prenatal anxiety and depression are distressing for the expectant mother and can have adverse effects on her fetus and subsequently, her child. This study aimed to determine whether listening to specially composed songs would be an effective intervention for reducing symptoms of prenatal anxiety and depression. METHODS: Pregnant women were recruited online and randomly assigned to one of two groups: the music group (daily listening to specially composed songs) or control group (daily relaxation) for 12 weeks each. Self-report questionnaires were used to assess symptoms of State and Trait anxiety (Spielberger) and depression (Edinburgh Postnatal Depression Scale (EPDS)). Trait anxiety was measured as the primary outcome, while State anxiety and depression were the secondary outcomes. 111 participants were randomised to each group. 20 participants in the intervention group and 16 participants in the active control group completed the study. RESULTS: The music group demonstrated lower Trait Anxiety (p = .0001) (effect size 0.80), State Anxiety (p = .02) (effect size 0.64), and EPDS (p = .002) (effect size 0.92) scores at week 12 compared to baseline, by paired t test. There were no such changes in the control group. CONCLUSIONS: Though this pilot study had high levels of attrition, the results do suggest that regular listening to relaxing music should be explored further as an effective non-pharmacological means for reducing prenatal anxiety and depression. TRIAL REGISTRATION: ClinicalTrials.gov NCT02776293 LV-001. Registered 17 May 2016. Retrospectively registered. ELECTRONIC SUPPLEMENTARY MATERIAL: The online version of this article (doi:10.1186/s12906-017-1759-3) contains supplementary material, which is available to authorized users. BioMed Central 2017-05-08 /pmc/articles/PMC5423008/ /pubmed/28482901 http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s12906-017-1759-3 Text en © The Author(s). 2017 Open AccessThis article is distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/), which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided you give appropriate credit to the original author(s) and the source, provide a link to the Creative Commons license, and indicate if changes were made. The Creative Commons Public Domain Dedication waiver (http://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/) applies to the data made available in this article, unless otherwise stated. |
spellingShingle | Research Article Nwebube, Chineze Glover, Vivette Stewart, Lauren Prenatal listening to songs composed for pregnancy and symptoms of anxiety and depression: a pilot study |
title | Prenatal listening to songs composed for pregnancy and symptoms of anxiety and depression: a pilot study |
title_full | Prenatal listening to songs composed for pregnancy and symptoms of anxiety and depression: a pilot study |
title_fullStr | Prenatal listening to songs composed for pregnancy and symptoms of anxiety and depression: a pilot study |
title_full_unstemmed | Prenatal listening to songs composed for pregnancy and symptoms of anxiety and depression: a pilot study |
title_short | Prenatal listening to songs composed for pregnancy and symptoms of anxiety and depression: a pilot study |
title_sort | prenatal listening to songs composed for pregnancy and symptoms of anxiety and depression: a pilot study |
topic | Research Article |
url | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5423008/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/28482901 http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s12906-017-1759-3 |
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