We have very much appreciated the article entitled “Receptive Music Therapy Is More
Effective Than Interactive Music Therapy to Relieve Behavioral and Psychological Symptoms
of Dementia: A Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis” by Tsoi et al
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and the authors’ efforts to compare active music approaches with music listening
in dementia. This is also one of the main points suggested by a previous Cochrane
Review publication regarding music interventions in dementia. However, we would like
to introduce some remarks arising from this paper. First of all, music therapy approaches
(active and receptive techniques) include a direct and inevitable relationship between
the music therapist and the patient,
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and for this reason music interventions to which the authors referred should be defined
as “music listening” and not as “receptive music therapy.” In addition, we are not
sure that the authors quoted all articles meeting their inclusion criteria: some studies,
for example, were excluded from this systematic-review and meta-analysis.
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References
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Published online: July 04, 2018
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