The project
The working component, especially in some fields including healthcare, can significantly contribute to create situations of high stress or burnout that may cause also severe diseases.
Stress is a condition where the requests to the individual are higher than its real possibilities: this creates an imbalance that becomes a source of possible negative feedback at physical, emotional, behavioral and cognitive level. The environment and work contents may therefore lead to conditions of exhaustion of physical and emotional resources with negative repercussions on individual’s health.
The literature shows that music therapy approach (active and receptive techniques) can have a positive impact on these factors both in pathological and non-pathological conditions.
The study will use a specific approach defined “music medicine” in which music listening can change the psycho-physiological state through the tailored use of songs that meet specific parameters, and musical structures, able to interact with the individual’s psychosomatic imbalances during stressful conditions (e.g. psychological distress, illness, hospitalization, etc.).
The music used in fact, will be composed by an artificial intelligence, Melomics-Health, on the basis of specific sound parameters and appropriate musical structures aimed at achieving the expected objective.
Psychological (clinical scales) and biological (cortisol level measure in a sub-group of the sample) assessments will be carried out as part of a pilot crossover study involving about fifty health care workers.
The study takes advantage of the collaboration of highly qualified institutions in the fields of medicine, psychology and technology in order to promote a high quality scientific research.
LINK
http://geb.uma.es/melomics/melomics.html
https://twitter.com/_Music4Stress_
https://www.facebook.com/music4stress/
Goals
Planned costs: € 13.000,00
- Music design and composition: € 4.000
- Information Technology support (Umiversity of Malaga): € 1.500
- Psychological Assessment: € 2.000
- Biological Assessment: € 2.000
- Statistics: € 1.000
- Devices and hearphones: € 500
- Scholarship (recruitment, database management): € 2.000
Video
Media Gallery
Rewards
Donation 50 €
1 Melomics-Health song (MP3)
Donation 100 €
Pin logo Melomics-Health project
Donation 500 €
T-shirt logo progetto Melomics-Health project
Donation 1000 € or more
Melomics-Health playlist (7 songs) and Acknowledgements in scientific papers and copy of the manuscript
Team
Alfredo Raglio
Dott. | FounderAlfredo Raglio
Dott. | Founder
Department of Public Health,Experimental and Forensic Medicine, Uniersity of Pavia, Pavia, Italy.
Giulia Gontero
Dott.ssaGiulia Gontero
Dott.ssaEnrico Oddone
Dott.Enrico Oddone
Dott.Livia Visai
Prof.ssaLivia Visai
Prof.ssaFrancisco Vico
Prof.Francisco Vico
Prof.Marcello Imbriani
Prof.Marcello Imbriani
Prof.Director of the Department of Occupational and Preventive Medicine, Pavia University.