Music Intervention Pilot Study: Assessing Teaching Methods of Group Marimba Classes Designed to Train Spatial Skills of Older Adults with Changes in Cognition.
Music Intervention Pilot Study: Assessing Teaching Methods of Group Marimba Classes Designed to Train Spatial Skills of Older Adults with Changes in Cognition.
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10.47513/mmd.v13i4.749
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2021-10
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Grimes DL
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Rodakowski J;Dorris JL;McLaughlin DJ;Grimes DL
老年人的空间技能下降，特别是那些有认知挑战的人，使他们对驾驭环境不那么自信。空间训练已被证明有助于这种下降，从事音乐有利于音乐家的空间技能。很少有研究探索音乐可以作为老年人空间训练的方法。本研究从三个方面探讨了音乐课作为老年人空间训练的方法：1）在乐器上保持空间定向的成功率。2.）的情况。阅读书面音乐的能力。3.）第三章干预前后的空间定向测试结果。我们开发并测试了一个为期六周的马林巴课程，该课程针对老年痴呆症前期或早期痴呆症患者的空间训练原则。在干预前后，我们用视觉感知技能测验中的定向测验评估空间技能。他们的评分平均增加了0.71，这是一个有临床意义的变化（d = 0.3）。参与者还表现出高频率的保持对乐器的定向，更多的参与者在干预过程中自我选择阅读没有音符的音乐（p < 0.01）。随着未来的研究，基于音乐的训练可能是在认知能力下降期间支持空间技能的一种方法。
Spatial skills decline in older adults, particularly those with cognitive challenges, leaving them less confident to navigate their environment. Spatial training has been shown to help with this decline and engaging in music has benefitted the spatial skills of musicians. A paucity of research explores ways that music could serve as spatial training for older adults. This study explored music classes as spatial training for older adults in three ways: 1) Success rates staying spatially oriented on the instrument. 2.) Ability to read written music. 3.) Outcomes on a spatial orientation test taken pre- and post-intervention. We developed and tested a six-week marimba class that targeted spatial training principles for older adults with predementia or early dementia. We assessed the spatial skills with the Orientation Test from the Test of Visual Perceptual Skills pre- and post-intervention. Their scores increased an average of 0.71, a clinically meaningful change (d = 0.3). Participants also demonstrated high frequencies of remaining oriented on the instrument, and more participants self-selected to read music without notes (p < 0.01) over the course of the intervention. With future research, music-based training may be one way to support spatial skills during cognitive decline.