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

Preti, Costanza; Welch, Graham

doi:10.1080/17533015.2012.665371

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“…Although musicians were careful to avoid terms such as “therapy” when talking about the impact of music on their audience/patients, their comments suggested that they nonetheless recognized the therapeutic potential of their musical interventions. This is consistent with the perspectives of the hospital staff, who were found by Preti and Welch (2012a) to also be aware of the positive impact that music sessions had on the patients and their carers. The musicians were passionate about and committed to their work in hospitals.…”

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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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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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“…Through the study, we became aware that arts-in-medicine programs may inadvertently contribute to that complexity by adding additional distraction, and that music, in particular, may cause a negative distraction during procedures for the staff involved in performing the procedures. This finding is supported by Preti and Welch ( 2012 ), who described that 5 of 20 (25%) staff they interviewed found music to be a negative element, with one physician stating that it disturbed concentration. This was described by nurses in our study also, with comments coded as “music is disruptive to staff,” “music annoys staff” and “music slows delivery of care.”…”

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The effects of arts-in-medicine programming on the medical-surgical work environment

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Background: Arts in medicine programs have significant impacts on patients and staff in long-term care environments, but the literature lacks evidence of effectiveness on hospital units with shorter average lengths of stay. Methods: The qualitative study used individual structured interviews to assess the impacts of arts programming on job satisfaction, stress, unit culture, support, quality of care, and patient outcomes on a short-term medical-surgical unit, and used a qualitative cross comparison grounded theory methodology to analyze data. Results: The study confirmed that arts programming can positively affect unit culture, nursing practice, and quality of care on short-stay medical-surgical units. Significant insights related to nursing practice and the art program were found, including that music can cause negative distraction for staff. Conclusions: While positive impacts of arts programming on the medical-surgical environment are clear, potential negative effects also need to be considered in the development of practice protocols for artists.

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“…Moreover, the issue of updating the repertoire was exacerbated by the length of time spent in each space of the hospital. If for six months the same musician had to play in the same ward, this would inevitably cause some staff to notice the ‘sameness’ of their repertoire and, in some cases, to be irritated by it (Preti & Welch, 2012).…”

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“…Therefore some of them had to go through a time-consuming task each time they decided to update their repertoire. Also the implementation of a more frequent rotation across the wards would have been a simple improvement for the musicians as well as for the hospital staff that, on some occasions, complained about the ‘sameness’ of the repertoire, as each musician had a different musical style and repertoire (Preti & Welch, 2012).…”

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The inherent challenges in creative musical performance in a paediatric hospital setting

Preti¹,

Welch²

2012

Psychology of Music

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The paper investigates the challenges that musicians face when playing in a paediatric hospital, drawing on case study evidence from a long-standing programme in Italy. The research focussed on identifying: (i) the inherent challenges of being a performer in a hospital; and (ii) the professional characteristics of the musicians who perform in hospitals. As part of a wider, cross-cultural study, musicians (N = 8) were asked to report their (i) physical and (ii) psychological perceptions, before and after their musical performance in the hospital across four weeks. Interview data were analyzed according to content analysis and were informed by grounded theory. Results suggest that performing in a hospital setting is particularly demanding psychologically and emotionally where the nature of the musicians’ role requires them to improvise (i) as part of their normal performance practice, seeking active collaboration by the patient, and (ii) environmentally, in relation to changes in the medical condition of their client/patient/audience. The results are also explained in terms of inherent tensions in a professional musical identity that requires expert performance in a clinical setting.

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

Cited by 15 publications

References 44 publications

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

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

The effects of arts-in-medicine programming on the medical-surgical work environment

The inherent challenges in creative musical performance in a paediatric hospital setting

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