Discussion Main findings We examined the effectiveness of group music therapy on ameliorating psychiatric symptoms and depression in nursing home patients with schizophrenia. The study shows that group music therapy may effectively reduce PANSS and CDSS scores in nursing home patients with schizophrenia.The results show that PANSS and CDSS scores significantly improved from baseline to post test assessments between the two groups. However, this improvement was not maintained over 3 months in the intervention group. This maybe because the music therapy intervention did not continue during this 3-month period, which also indicates that the effect of music therapy may only last for 1 month.