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The Effect of Music Therapy on the Apparent Emotional Discomfort of Depressed Women Referring to the Emergency Social Center Case Study of Shiraz


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The purpose of this study was to determine the emotional discomfort of depressed women referring to social emergency center in Shiraz. The research was a semi-experimental design. The population of this study included 60 depressed women referring to the social emergency center in Shiraz who were divided into two groups of 30 (experimental & control) with purposeful sampling. 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. Apre-test with control of depressed women referred to the experimental and control groups in terms of apparent emotional discomfort (p <0.0001 & F = 46.39), therefore, the hypothesis is confirmed. In other words, music therapy with regard to the mean emotional discomfort of depressed women referred to the experimental group in post-test compared with the mean of depressed women referred to the control group reduced the apparent emotional discomfort of the experimental group. The effect or difference is 0.58, in other words, 58% of the individual differences in the post-test scores of the apparent emotional discomfort are related to the effect of music therapy (group membership). 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).

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Emotional Distress, Music Therapy, Depressed Women.
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Authors

Elham Afshinpour
Department of Psychology, Firoozabad Branch, Islamic Azad University, Firoozabad, Fars, Iran, Islamic Republic of
Ali Naseri
Department of Psychology, Firoozabad Branch, Islamic Azad University, Firoozabad, Fars, Iran, Islamic Republic of

Abstract


The purpose of this study was to determine the emotional discomfort of depressed women referring to social emergency center in Shiraz. The research was a semi-experimental design. The population of this study included 60 depressed women referring to the social emergency center in Shiraz who were divided into two groups of 30 (experimental & control) with purposeful sampling. 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. Apre-test with control of depressed women referred to the experimental and control groups in terms of apparent emotional discomfort (p <0.0001 & F = 46.39), therefore, the hypothesis is confirmed. In other words, music therapy with regard to the mean emotional discomfort of depressed women referred to the experimental group in post-test compared with the mean of depressed women referred to the control group reduced the apparent emotional discomfort of the experimental group. The effect or difference is 0.58, in other words, 58% of the individual differences in the post-test scores of the apparent emotional discomfort are related to the effect of music therapy (group membership). 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).

Keywords


Emotional Distress, Music Therapy, Depressed Women.

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