Abstract
Previous studies suggest that music interventions and music therapy can enhance wellbeing, improve quality of life, and stimulate cognitive functions in people with disorders of consciousness (DOC), including coma, unresponsive wakefulness syndrome (UWS) and minimally conscious state (MCS). This systematic review was designed to identify patterns of both short- and long-term changes in response to music interventions and music therapy for people living with DOC on the basis of a qualitative meta-summary. The results indicate that music intervention and music therapy often lead to behavioural changes in, for example, breathing cycles, visual fixation and eye contact. However, the details of the data collection procedures are incomplete in some cases. Nonetheless, the results complement and extend the quantitative work on music interventions for people with DOC by revealing the importance of environmental factors, such as the roles of the relatives and friends of patients with respect to informing and guiding music therapeutic interventions.
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