Vol. 4 (2020)
Articles

Music therapy as an improvement of hospital environments

Miguel Nava Mateos
Licenciado en Historia y Ciencia de la Música
María Jesús del Olmo Barros
Universidad Autónoma de Madrid
Bio
Published January 29, 2021

Keywords:

music, stress, sound, environment, therapy
How to Cite
Nava Mateos, M., & del Olmo Barros, M. J. (2021). Music therapy as an improvement of hospital environments. Revista De Investigación En Musicoterapia, 4(4), 56–77. https://doi.org/10.15366/rim2020.4.004

Abstract

If a sound is perceptible with a time interval below a certain level it is known as a continuous sound (Berglund et al.,1999) . This type of sound is discriminated by the ear, since our auditory system analyzes that sound as a non-dangerous stimulus. Another agent that is maintained unnoticed is the stress and the anxiety that goes coupling to the person little by little until it begins to generate quite serious problems. Studies of tests to apply music as therapy to solve the problems derived from these agents have demonstrated that an improvement exists and that they are problems with a nonaggressive, cheap and simple solution as it is to listen to music. Although it is a developing field, this work still shows the studies that the author has believed to be most relevant when it comes to justifying the use of this therapy.

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