Music therapy effectiveness on depression of women referring to Shiraz specialist social emergency center

Pages:324-328
Elham Afshinpour and Ali Naseri (Department of Psychology, Firoozabad Branch, Islamic Azad University, Firoozabad, Fars, Iran )

The purpose of this study was to determine the effectiveness of music therapy on depression in women referred to the emergency medical center of Shiraz. The research design was semi-experimental and the statistical population of this study included depressed women referring to Shiraz community social emergency center which were surveyed in the summer of 1996 Sixty people from this community were selected using purposeful sampling method and divided into two groups of 30 (test & control). The Beck Depression Inventory was distributed among the sample population. In this research, the experimental group participated in music therapy sessions for two days a week for one month, which lasted one hour per day. The members of the witness group also did not receive any training in this regard. After the end of the sessions, a test was performed between the two groups and again after a month, the next test took place. Data were analyzed by software version 17 (SPSS). The results of this study showed that music therapy reduced the level of depression in the experimental group.