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Record W4406726437 · doi:10.1080/00029157.2024.2435953

Music and hypnosis for well-being in retirement homes: A pilot study

2025· article· en· W4406726437 on OpenAlex
Josiane Bissonnette, Marie‐Claude Guertin, Anne-Marie Pinard, David Ogez, Pierre Rainville

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Bibliographic record

VenueAmerican Journal of Clinical Hypnosis · 2025
Typearticle
Languageen
FieldPsychology
TopicMusic Therapy and Health
Canadian institutionsInstitut Universitaire de Gériatrie de MontréalUniversité LavalHôpital Maisonneuve-RosemontUniversité de MontréalCentre for Interdisciplinary Research in Rehabilitation
Fundersnot available
KeywordsHypnosisPsychological interventionAnxietyPsychologyIntervention (counseling)Generalizability theoryClinical psychologyDistractionMusic therapyPsychotherapistDevelopmental psychologyMedicineAlternative medicinePsychiatryCognitive psychology

Abstract

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Anxiety, pain and poor well-being are major issues in elderly individuals. Complementary interventions, such as music and hypnosis, are increasingly used to address these issues. The objectives of this study were to assess immediate changes in anxiety, pain and well-being during personalized prerecorded music and hypnosis interventions compared to control sessions, and to explore participants’ subjective experiences. We employed a multiple time series model with daily measurements with older people living in retirement homes in rural areas (n = 8). The Edmonton Symptom Assessment Scale (ESAS) evaluated these three dimensions before and after each session, while participants’ subjective experience was collected using an unstructured interview. The primary results showed a significant improvement in the composite score of anxiety, pain, and well-being for the music (p < .001), hypnosis (p = .0158), and music/hypnosis (p = .013) intervention sessions compared to the control sessions. The secondary results indicated a reduction in anxiety for both the music and music/hypnosis interventions (p < .05), along with a significant improvement in well-being. These effects may be attributed to mechanisms such as absorption, episodic memory, cognitive agency, positive emotion, rhythmic entrainment, and rapport, which could have modulated the interventions’ impact. In conclusion, personalized prerecorded music and hypnosis interventions appear to be effective in enhancing the well-being of older individuals residing in retirement homes. Further studies are needed to assess the generalizability of these results to a larger population from diverse sociodemographic backgrounds, and better understand the subjective experiences that mediate these effects.

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Not calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. Learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and 10,348 direct Gemma labels. Candidate is the union of thresholded teacher heads; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels or direct frontier model labels.

metaresearch head score (Codex)0.004
metaresearch head score (Gemma)0.000
Version: codex-gemma-dda1882f352aValidation status: machine_predicted_unvalidated
Candidate categoriesnone
Consensus categoriesnone
DomainCandidate signal: none · Consensus signal: none
Study designCandidate signal: Observational · Consensus signal: Observational
GenreCandidate signal: Empirical · Consensus signal: Empirical
Teacher disagreement score0.351
Threshold uncertainty score0.638

Codex and Gemma teacher scores by category

CategoryCodexGemma
Metaresearch0.0040.000
Meta-epidemiology (narrow)0.0000.000
Meta-epidemiology (broad)0.0010.000
Bibliometrics0.0000.001
Science and technology studies0.0000.000
Scholarly communication0.0000.000
Open science0.0000.000
Research integrity0.0000.001
Insufficient payload (model declined to judge)0.0000.000

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Opus teacher head0.133
GPT teacher head0.489
Teacher spread0.356 · how far apart the two teachers sit on this one work
Validation statusscore_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from it