@misc{oai:kawasakigakuen.repo.nii.ac.jp:00000330,
 author = {Hsiang-Yun LAI and Shih-Fen TANG and Yi-Nuo  SHIH},
 month = {Dec},
 note = {Since the advent of the COVID-19 pandemic in the end of 2019, the symptoms of panic and stress have been spreading everybody in our society, not to mention those in underprivileged groups. Persons with mental illness and social isolation can delay their recovery and even increase the risk potential of suicide. In this study, we intended to study whether music therapy with body percussion has therapeutic benefits for patients with schizophrenia during the COVID pandemic. [Methods:] In this pilot study, we enrolled eight patients with schizophrenia as study participants in a psychiatric hospital located in northern Taiwan. The music therapy with body percussion was used for study participants during the rampant period of COVID-19 pandemic. Group music therapy with body percussion was given once a week for seven weeks. Then, we evaluated the therapeutic benefits of group music therapy with body percussion within seven days after the therapy. [Results:] Of a list of 12 items for therapeutic value, our study patients with chronic schizophrenia ranked number 1 for "altruism" and "guidance," number 2 for "interpersonal learning-input" as well as number 3 for "interpersonal output" and "instillation of hope." [Conclusion:] The intervention of music therapy with body percussion to patients with chronic schizophrenia during the COVID-19 pandemic showed effective to their physical, mental, and emotional care. We suggest that this pilot study needs to be duplicated in bigger-size groups of patients with schizophrenia to strengthen the study results., Original Article},
 title = {Therapeutic factors from group music therapy with body percussion in patients with chronic schizophrenia during COVID-19 pandemic: a pilot study},
 year = {2021}
}