1. Reducing Anxiety through Music Therapy at an Outpatient Eating Disorder Recovery Service.
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Bibb, Jennifer, Castle, David, and Skewes McFerran, Katrina
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ANXIETY treatment , *TREATMENT of eating disorders , *ANXIETY , *CONVALESCENCE , *OUTPATIENT services in hospitals , *LUNCHEONS , *MUSIC therapy , *SELF-evaluation , *STATISTICAL hypothesis testing , *PILOT projects , *JUDGMENT sampling , *GROUP process , *DESCRIPTIVE statistics ,ANXIETY prevention - Abstract
The authors of this study aimed to reduce post-meal related anxiety for people with eating disorders through participation in group music therapy in an outpatient day program. A purposively-inclusive pilot study design was adopted which utilized the self-report Subjective Units of Distress Scale (SUDS) to measure anxiety pre and post a single session. A total of 13 female participants attended a one-hour music therapy group session following a lunchtime social eating challenge and contributed to 50 occasions of data collection. A paired two-tailed t-test indicated a highly statistically significant difference (p = < 0.0001) between the pre and post session scores, suggesting that music therapy significantly decreased anxiety. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
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- 2019
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