The Effectiveness of Music Therapy in Patients with Stress-Related Anxiety, Surgical Procedures and Other Related Diseases

Abstract

The purpose of this research is to know the mechanism and the relationship between listening to music and overcoming anxiety. This literature writing uses the literature review method by searching the literature using the keywords Anxiety, Music therapy and Music Intervention in several databases that published within the last 10 years. All types of research related to anxiety and music therapy with human samples were included and studies with abstracts only, studies with animal research subjects and studies that did not report results in English were excluded. Analisis data tidak dilakukan pada penelitian ini. After the appropriate literature is found, the writing of the literature manuscript begins. The results of this study explain that one of the psychological interventions that can be done is music therapy. Music therapy is stated to be effective in reducing the level of anxiety in patients with anxiety, beneficial in reducing anxietas due to work, hospital procedures such as surgery and cancer.