The Effectiveness of Music Therapy on the Quality of Life and Improvement of Syndrome in Women Suffering from Dysthymia

Background: Music therapy as a scientific approach plays an important rolein the treatment of some psychopaths. Therefore, the present study aims atinvestigating the effectiveness of music therapy on the quality of life andimprovement of syndrome in women suffering from dysthymia.Methods: The research project was quasi-experimental study with pre-test,post-test and control group. All the women suffering from dysthymia whoapproached to psychological clinics of Yazd in 2018 contained the statisticalpopulation of the study. 30 of them were selected by purposive samplingmethod and were randomly categorized into experimental and control groups(15 persons). Quality of Life Questionnaire (WHOQOL-BREF) and BeckDepression Inventory (BDI-II) were filled before and after intervention bypeople. Music therapy has been experimented on experimental group for 4weeks and during 1 month. The findings were analyzed by SPSS-21 andcovariance analysis.Results: Findings showed that the scores of subjects in the variables of lifequality were significantly different from those in the variables of syndromedevelopment and music therapy had a significant effect on quality of life andthe improvement of syndrome among women in experimental group.Conclusion: As a result, participating in music therapy sessions couldincrease the level of life quality and syndrome improvement among womensuffering from dysthymia.

Keywords:

Quality of Life , Music Therapy , Women , Disorder Dysthymic