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Promoting well-being through group drumming with mental health service users and their carers.


ABSTRACT: PURPOSE:Music has been linked with well-being across clinical and community settings. Yet, research has focused on assessment of single dimensions of well-being and on the typical receiver of support services. Acknowledging the burden that a caring role encompasses and integrating recent proposals for a multifaceted definition of well-being, we explore the extent to which group drumming interventions translate into multidimensional well-being change for both mental health service users and carers. METHOD:Thirty-nine participants engaged in one of a series of community drumming programmes were assessed via semi-structured interviews (n = 11) and focus groups (n = 28) at the end of each programme. Data were analysed using IPA. RESULTS AND CONCLUSION:Emotional, psychological and social dimensions of well-being emerged for both patients and carers, accounted for through six themes: (1) hedonia: positive affect and pleasant physical effects of drumming; (2) agency: initiative and sense of control; (3) accomplishment: non-specific and in relation to musical goals; (4) engagement, through focus and flow; (5) a redefinition of self, through self-awareness, construction of a positive identity, self-prospection and incorporation of a musical identity; and (6) social well-being, through connectedness and positive relationships. The potential of such interventions for clinical contexts is discussed.

SUBMITTER: Ascenso S 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC6041820 | biostudies-literature | 2018 Dec

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature

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Promoting well-being through group drumming with mental health service users and their carers.

Ascenso Sara S   Perkins Rosie R   Atkins Louise L   Fancourt Daisy D   Williamon Aaron A  

International journal of qualitative studies on health and well-being 20181201 1


<h4>Purpose</h4>Music has been linked with well-being across clinical and community settings. Yet, research has focused on assessment of single dimensions of well-being and on the typical receiver of support services. Acknowledging the burden that a caring role encompasses and integrating recent proposals for a multifaceted definition of well-being, we explore the extent to which group drumming interventions translate into multidimensional well-being change for both mental health service users a  ...[more]

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