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Review
. 2013 Aug 7:8:20635.
doi: 10.3402/qhw.v8i0.20635.

Music, health, and well-being: a review

Raymond A R MacDonald  1
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Review

Music, health, and well-being: a review

Raymond A R MacDonald. Int J Qual Stud Health Well-being. .

Abstract

The relationship between arts participation and health is currently very topical. Motivated by a desire to investigate innovative, non-invasive, and economically viable interventions that embrace contemporary definitions of health, practitioners and researchers across the world have been developing and researching arts inventions. One of the key drivers in this vigorous research milieu is the growth of qualitative research within health care contexts and researchers interested in exploring the potential benefits of musical participation have fully embraced the advances that have taken place in health-related qualitative research. The following article presents a number of different types of qualitative research projects focused on exploring the process and outcomes of music interventions. It also presents a new conceptual model for music, health and well-being. This new model develops on a previous version of MacDonald, Kreutz, and Mitchell (2012b) by incorporating new elements and contextualization and providing detailed experimental examples to support the various components.

Keywords: Music health and well-being; music; psychology; therapy community.

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Conceptual framework for music, health and well-being.
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