A University of Sheffield study found that being in a brass band can benefit your overall health.
Playing an instrument in a brass band is associated with improved overall well-being—including mental, social and respiratory health, according to a study conducted by professors at England's University of Sheffield.Frontiers in Psychology: Performance Science,Researchers collaborated with Brass Bands England, a coalition of brass bands in the country, to obtain respondents for the study. In the end, they had 346 adult respondents.
The researchers wrote that the range of instruments the respondents played"reflected the levels of instrumentation found within a typical brass band." The cornet, which is similar to the trumpet, was the most frequently played, followed by the alto horn, the trombone and the tuba. One of the reasons the study was worthwhile, according to researchers, was that most previous studies of the health benefits of being part of a musical group were on choirs.
The main survey question that researchers asked respondents was"How does brass banding affect your life?" It was an open question, and respondents were given space to provide positive or negative responses that corresponded to five categories: emotional health, physical health, psychological health, social health and spiritual health.
Using an applied thematic qualitative analysis protocol, researchers analyzed the survey responses to determine what they said about the respondents' health according to the five categories. A total of 1,658 individual quotes were coded, according to the study.
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