102 ASSESSMENT AND TREATMENT POTENTIAL OF MUSIC INTERVENTION FOR THINKING DISORDERS IN PATIENTS WITH SCHIZOPHRENIA

Abstract

Background Patients with schizophrenia often show significant thinking disorders, which have a serious impact on their daily life and recovery of social functions. Traditional treatment methods mainly rely on drugs and psychotherapy, and music intervention, as a new non-drug treatment method, has shown its potential in improving the symptoms of schizophrenia. The study aims to evaluate the effect of music intervention on improving thinking disorders and cognitive functions in patients with schizophrenia. Methods The study included 60 patients with schizophrenia and randomly divided them into a music intervention group and a control group, with 30 people in each group. The experimental group received 12 weeks of music intervention, 3 times a week, 60 minutes each time, including auditory training, instrumental performance, and rhythm activities. The control group continued to receive conventional drug treatment. The study evaluated the patients before and after using the Positive and Negative Syndrome Scale (PANSS) and the cognitive function test scale to compare the changes in thought disorders, positive symptoms, negative symptoms, and cognitive function between the two groups. Results The results showed that the experimental group showed significant improvements in both positive and negative symptom scores, especially in thought disorder symptoms. See Table 1 for specific data. As can be seen from Table 1, the improvement in thought disorder scores, positive symptoms, and negative symptoms scores in the experimental group was significantly greater than that in the control group. The experimental group’s thinking disorder score improved by 9.5 points, positive symptoms improved by 8.2 points, negative symptoms improved by 7.8 points, and cognitive function score improved by 15.7 points, all of which were statistically significant (P < 0.05). The improvement in various assessments in the control group was smaller and did not reach the significance level. Data show that music intervention has significant therapeutic effects in alleviating thinking disorders and improving cognitive function. Discussion Research shows that music intervention can significantly improve the thinking disorders and cognitive functions of patients with schizophrenia, especially showing positive effects in alleviating positive symptoms and negative symptoms. Music intervention is easy to implement and has low side effects, which makes it have good clinical application prospects and provides a valuable supplementary path for the comprehensive treatment of schizophrenia. Future research can further explore the role of music intervention in the long-term recovery of patients with schizophrenia, and combine neuroimaging techniques to further analyze its specific impact on brain function.