The Effects of Singing-based Music Therapy Program on the Level of Psychoemotional Benefits in Caregivers of ICU Patients

A single 1-hour singing-based intervention is conducted with each primary caregiver of an ICU patient. The intervention is composed of three steps: 1) listening to a participant's preferred music and identifying his and her emotional states (15 minutes), (2) singing for emotional changes (30 minutes), and (3) discussing what he or she experiences during singing and identifying how they apply such experience to their personal use of music for emotional changes in his or her everyday life (15 minutes).