Music in a Hospital: The Impact of a Live Music Program on Pediatric Patients and Their Caregivers

Preti, Costanza; Welch, Graham

doi:10.1177/1943862111399449

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“…Examples of coding and clustering (families) were translated into English and verified by the authors jointly with fellow researchers who were also experienced in this kind of analysis (see Preti & Welch, 2011 for more details). This verification process also had the advantage of reducing bias due to prolonged involvement with the respondents, as the researcher is likely to develop a positive or negative view of events (Robson, 2002, p. 172).…”

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The incidental impact of music on hospital staff: An Italian case study

Preti¹,

Welch²

2012

Arts & Health

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The incidental impact of music on hospital staff: An Italian case study

Preti¹,

Welch²

2012

Arts & Health

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“…At the time of the research, the Italian musicians had been playing for 5 years in the same paediatric hospital on a long-term regular basis, in corridors, waiting rooms and bedsides, across the whole hospital. Their repertoire consisted of popular children’s songs and a small selection of classical music (see Preti & Welch, 2011).…”

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“…In their position paper, they provide some preliminary guidelines for the professionalization of “arts and health” performers, based on the journey that music therapy, as a discipline, has had to undergo in the past 60 years. They also highlight some of the differences existing between musicians and music therapists working in the same settings (Preti & Welch, 2004, 2011, 2012b).…”

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Professional identities and motivations of musicians playing in healthcare settings: Cross-cultural evidence from UK and Italy

Preti

Welch

2013

Musicae Scientiae

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The role of professional musicians playing in healthcare settings is largely non-documented, chiefly because musicians have worked on a voluntary basis or outside established music programmes. However, research in arts and health suggest that these musicians have acquired a level of expertise and that they have consequently developed a professional identity related to their work. Semi-structured interviews were conducted with two groups of musicians performing in healthcare settings in UK (N = 8) and Italy (N = 9) to investigate their motivations and perceived musical and interpersonal skills developed in their work. Interview data suggest that such musicians are highly motivated, wanting to perform in a variety of healthcare settings, often for strongly moral reasons, occasionally because of religious reasons. Musicians were conscious of the fact that any positive outcome of their performance was unlikely without possessing specific skills in social interaction, entailing empathy, appreciation, openness, flexibility of response and a sense of humour. The results are discussed in the light of the literature on professionalism and professional identity in healthcare settings.

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“…MacDonald et al, 2012; MacDonald, 2013). These include hospitals (Preti and Welch, 2011; Preti, 2013), prisons (Henley et al, 2012), young offender institutions (Smeijesters et al, 2011; Barrett and Baker, 2012) and choral settings (Langston and Barrett, 2008; Dingle et al, 2013). …”

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Singing and social inclusion

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There is a growing body of neurological, cognitive, and social psychological research to suggest the possibility of positive transfer effects from structured musical engagement. In particular, there is evidence to suggest that engagement in musical activities may impact on social inclusion (sense of self and of being socially integrated). Tackling social exclusion and promoting social inclusion are common concerns internationally, such as in the UK and the EC, and there are many diverse Government ministries and agencies globally that see the arts in general and music in particular as a key means by which social needs can be addressed. As part of a wider evaluation of a national, Government-sponsored music education initiative for Primary-aged children in England (“Sing Up”), opportunity was taken by the authors, at the request of the funders, to assess any possible relationship between (a) children's developing singing behavior and development and (b) their social inclusion (sense of self and of being socially integrated). Subsequently, it was possible to match data from n = 6087 participants, drawn from the final 3 years of data collection (2008–2011), in terms of each child's individually assessed singing ability (based on their singing behavior of two well-known songs to create a “normalized singing score”) and their written responses to a specially-designed questionnaire that included a set of statements related to children's sense of being socially included to which the children indicated their level of agreement on a seven-point Likert scale. Data analyses suggested that the higher the normalized singing development rating, the more positive the child's self-concept and sense of being socially included, irrespective of singer age, sex and ethnicity.

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Music in a Hospital: The Impact of a Live Music Program on Pediatric Patients and Their Caregivers

Cited by 36 publications

References 14 publications

The incidental impact of music on hospital staff: An Italian case study

The incidental impact of music on hospital staff: An Italian case study

Professional identities and motivations of musicians playing in healthcare settings: Cross-cultural evidence from UK and Italy

Singing and social inclusion

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