Objective: To evaluate the effect of assisted music therapy for chronic schizophrenia.
Methods:11 articles including 603 chronic schizophrenia patients were meta-analyzed
using fixed effect model orrandomeffect model.
Results:6 randomized controlled trials were synthesized, showing that the difference
was significant in statistics between experimental group (patients with music and drugstherapy) and control group (patients with drugs therapy only). Both the scores of SANS
and BPRS for the control group were higher than those for the experimental group
(SANS, d = 0.68; 95%CI: 0.46-0.90 and BPRS, d = 0.44; 95%CI: 0.06-0.82). In addition,
the scores of both SANS and BPRS for the pre-test were higher than those for the posttest (SANS, d = 1.17; 95%CI: 0.02-2.32 and BPRS, d = 2.05; 95%CI: 0.28-3.82).