[Meta-analysis of assisted music therapy for chronic schizophrenia].

Objective: To evaluate the effect of assisted music therapy for chronic schizophrenia.

Methods: 11 articles including 603 chronic schizophrenia patients were meta-analyzed using fixed effect model or random effect model.

Results: 6 randomized controlled trials were synthesized, showing that the difference was significant in statistics between experimental group (patients with music and drugs therapy) and control group (patients with drugs therapy only).