Source note · R040
Effects of Group Drumming Interventions on Anxiety, Depression, Social Resilience and Inflammatory Immune Response among Mental Health Service Users
A group drumming study reports promising psychological changes, with important limits to its comparison design.
- Setting
- Related music & arts
- Kind of evidence
- Intervention studies
- Review extent
- Main text reviewed
What was studied
A ten-week intervention among mental health service users: 59 enrolled and 45 analyzed, with 30 in drumming and 15 in a geographically allocated comparison group.
What it contributes
Several anxiety, depression and resilience comparisons favored the drumming group.
Where the evidence stops
Allocation was not random. Biomarker measurements and later follow-up lacked equivalent comparison data. The study does not establish immune improvement or predict the effects of ordinary community band membership.
One drumming programme, related analyses
These papers come from the same UK group-drumming research programme. The 2016 Perkins and 2018 Ascenso qualitative papers analyze the same 39-person sample, not independent replications. The Fancourt controlled study is a related programme report; its participants must not simply be added to the qualitative sample.
About this review
The main text was reviewed for its methods, reported findings and limits. This source note is an editorial summary, not a reproduction of the work.
Publisher-deposited metadata checked; this is not a new full-text appraisal.
Source appraisal retained from 2026-09-07. Related-programme links updated September 9, 2026.