Table 1.
Characteristics and summary of included texts.
| Characteristics and Summary of Included Texts | |
|---|---|
| Author, Date, Country, Design, Type of Text | Setting and Client Group |
| Gaddy [2] | N = 1196 (music therapists) |
| COVID-19 and Music Therapists’ Employment, Service Delivery, Perceived Stress, and Hope: A Descriptive Study | Private Practice/Contractual: 37.38%; Schools: 24.80%; Hospice: 19.43%; Psychiatry: 19.00% |
| September 2020, USA | |
| Cross sectional study (survey of music therapy professionals), Journal article | |
| Autism Spectrum Disorder: 44.73%; Developmental disabilities: 44.02%; Older Adults: 35.85%; Alzheimer’s: 34.35% | |
| Sasangohar [16] | An outpatient psychiatric clinic |
| Adapting an Outpatient Psychiatric Clinic to Telehealth During the COVID-19 Pandemic: A | Patients with psychiatric disorders, interpersonal dysfunctions and problems, sleep disorders |
| Practice Perspective | |
| October 2020 | |
| Case study, Journal article | |
| Knott [17] | Healthcare systems, |
| Virtual Music Therapy: Developing New | Educational setting and communities |
| Approaches to Service Delivery | Any client of music therapy |
| September 2020, USA | |
| Journal article | |
| The Enclave at Round Rock Senior Living Hosts a Patio Music Party with the Help of North Austin Music Therapy [18] | Retirement home |
| March 2020, USA | Seniors, aging adults, ASD, developmental challenges and neurological diseases and injuries |
| Newspaper article | |
| College of Music to Continue Successful Virtual Tele-therapy Services [19] | Educational setting |
| August 2020, USA | Students and young adults with disabilities |
| Case report, Newspaper article | |
| Negrete [20] | Hospital environment |
| Meeting the Challenges of the COVID-19 | Infants at Intensive Care Nursery and their parents/relatives |
| Pandemic: Virtual Developmental Music | |
| Therapy Class for Infants in the Neonatal | |
| Intensive Care Unit | |
| July–August 2020, USA | |
| Case report, Journal article | |
| Music School’s Virtual Approach Proves a Hit [21] | Educational setting |
| June 2020 | |
| Newspaper article | Regular students and students who need additional support |
| Gupta [22] | Educational setting |
| Singing Away the Social Distancing Blues: Art Therapy in a Time of Coronavirus | University (undergraduate art therapy program) |
| September 2020 | |
| Case report, Essay by a psychology professor | |
| Berman, EMTC [23] | Music therapy association |
| Music Connects Us | Music therapists and music therapy clients |
| September 2020 | |
| Flyer | |
| North London music therapy [24] | Music therapy session within North London music therapy organisation |
| Music Therapy in the Time of COVID—How NLMT’s Remote Sessions Actually Work | |
| Website article | Music therapists and their clients in online therapy |