esearchers have recently begun to explore what role music may play in helping people sleep. Several have even conducted meta-analyses to examine what research studies collectively say about music’s effectiveness as a sleep aid. Today we’re going to share the findings of one of these meta-analyses, which the International Journal of Nursing Studies recently published.
This meta-analysis sought to measure how well music can alleviate acute and chronic sleep disorders by analyzing the results of ten published studies. These studies involved 557 adult participants with sleep disorders. In each study, participants were randomly assigned to a treatment condition, in which they passively listened to music, or an alternative condition. Researchers then measured the sleep quality of all participants.