A list of research references for singing for breathing and lung health.
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Please note, this list was last updated 13 February 2019.
- Aldridge, D. (2004). Health, the individual, and integrated medicine: revisiting an aesthetic of health care. 1st American ed. London; New York: Jessica Kingsley Publishers
- Ansdell, G. (2014). How music helps in music therapy and everyday life. Farnham, Surrey: Ashgate Publishing Limited.
- Ascenso, S., Perkins, R., Atkins, L., Fancourt, D., & Williamon, A. (2018). Promoting well- being through group drumming with mental health service users and their carers. International journal of qualitative studies on health and well-being, 13(1), 1484219.
- Banzett RB, O’Donnell CR, Guilfoyle TE, Parshall MB, Schwartzstein RM, Meek PM, et al. (2015). Multidimensional Dyspnea Profile: an instrument for clinical and laboratory research. European Respiratory Journal, 45(6):1681-91.
- Bonilha, A.G., Onofre, F., Vieira, M.L., Prado, M.Y.A. & Martinez, J.A.B. (2009). Effects of singing classes on pulmonary function and quality of life of COPD patients. International Journal of Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease, vol. 4, pp. 1.
- Bott J, Blumenthal S, Buxton M, Ellum S, Falconer C, Garrod R, et al. (2009). Guidelines for the physiotherapy management of the adult, medical, spontaneously breathing patient. Thorax, 64: suppl 1: 1-51.
- British Lung Foundation. (2016). The Battle for Breath. Retrieved from www.blf.org.uk/policy/the-battle-for-breath-2016
- Carel, H. (2016). Phenomenology of Illness. Oxford: Oxford University Press.
- Carel, H. (2018). Breathlessness: the rift between objective measurement and subjective experience. The Lancet Respiratory Medicine, 6(5), 332-333.
- Cave, P. (2011). Singing for Breathing. Vocal Exercise CD. Retrieved from www.rbhcharity.org/shop/singing-for-breathing-audio-cd
- Cave, P. (2017). The Lung Cycle. Available from Repository for Arts and Health Resources.
- Chapman, J. (2006). Singing And Teaching Singing. Plymouth: Plural.
- Clift, S., Hancox G., Staricoff R. & Whitmore C. (2008). Singing and Health: A Systematic Mapping and Review of Non-Clinical Research. Sidney De Haan Research Centre for Arts and Health
- Clift, S. (2016). A Choir In Every Care Home: Thematic Literature Review. Retrieved from https://achoirineverycarehome.wordpress.com/resources/evidence-that-singing-works
- Clift, S. M., Skingley, A., Price, Sonia, Stephens, L., Hurley, S., Dickinson, J., Meadows, S., Levai, I., Jackson, A., Sullivan, R., Wren, N., McDaid, D., Park, A-la, Saleem, A., Baxter, N., Rosenthuler, G. and Shah, S. (2017). Singing for better breathing: findings from the Lambeth & Southwark singing and COPD project. Retrieved from http://create.canterbury.ac.uk/17081/#aFmJrlQXyqR33gJr.99
- Csikszentmihalyi, M. (2008). Flow: the psychology of optimal experience. London; New York: Harper
- Eley, R & Gorman, D. (2010). Didgeridoo playing and singing to support asthma management in Aboriginal Australians. The Journal of Rural Health: official journal of the American Rural Health Association and the National Rural Health Care Association, vol. 26, no. 1, pp. 100-104.
- Eley, R, Gorman, D. & Gately, J. (2010). Didgeridoos, songs and boomerangs for asthma management. Health Promotion Journal of Australia, 21, 39-44
- Farhi, D. (1996). The Breathing Book. New York: Henry Holt.
- Gick M.L., Nicol J.J. (2016). Singing for Respiratory Health: Theory, Evidence and Challenges. Health Promotion International, 31(3):725-734
- Gick, M.L. & Daugherty. C (2015). Changes in Spirometry, Quality Of Life And Well-Being in Persons with Asthma Following Singing, Diaphragmatic Breathing, and Singing and Diaphragmatic Breathing: A Pilot Study. Music and Medicine, 7, pp 40-49.
- Goldenberg, R.B. (2012). Singing and cystic fibrosis: A collective case study on the effects of private voice lessons on the pulmonary function and quality of life of adult cystic fibrosis patients. Retrieved from https://pqdtopen.proquest.com/doc/1760591361.html?FMT=ABS
- Goldenberg, R.B. (2016). Singing Lessons for Respiratory Health: A Literature Review. Journal of Voice, vol. 32, no. 1, pp. 85-94
- Hassan, M.M., Hussein, M.T., Emam, A.M., Rashad, U.M., Rezk, I. & Awad, A.H. (2018). Is insufficient pulmonary air support the cause of dysphonia in chronic obstructive pulmonary disease? Auris Nasus Larynx, vol. 45, no. 4, pp. 807-814.
- Higgins JPT, Altman DG, Gøtzsche PC, et al. (2011). The Cochrane Collaboration’s tool for assessing risk of bias in randomised trials. BMJ 2011;343 doi: 10.1136/bmj.d5928
- Kayes, G., Lewis A., Cave P. (2016). BLF Singing for Lung Health. Evaluation of the training programme. Internal report for the British Lung Foundation. Unpublished.
- Kayes, G. (2004). Singing The Actor. London: AC Black.
- Lewis, A, Cave, P. & Hopkinson, N.S. (2017). Singing for Lung Health: a qualitative assessment of a British Lung Foundation programme for group leaders. BMJ Open Respiratory Research, vol. 4, no. 1, pp. e000216.
- Lewis, A. & Thomas J. (2018). COPD and Singing for Lung Health: A Patient and Clinician Perspective. Pulmonary Therapy, 10.1007/s41030-018-0063-9.
- Lewis, A., Cave, P. & Hopkinson, N. (2018). Singing for Lung Health: service evaluation of the British Lung Foundation programme. Perspectives in Public Health, 138 (4), pp.215- 222.
- Lewis, A., Cave, P., Stern, M., Welch, L., Taylor, K., Russell, J., Doyle, A., Russell, A., McKee, H., Clift, S., Bott, J. & Hopkinson, N.S. (2016), Singing for Lung Health-a systematic review of the literature and consensus statement. NPJ Primary Care Respiratory Medicine, vol. 26, no. 1, pp.16080.
- Lord, V.M., Cave, P., Hume, V.J., Flude, E.J., Evans, A., Kelly, J.L., Polkey, M.I. & Hopkinson, N.S. (2010). Singing teaching as a therapy for chronic respiratory disease–a randomised controlled trial and qualitative evaluation. BMC Pulmonary Medicine, vol. 10, no. 1, pp. 41-41.
- Lord, V.M., Hume, V.J., Kelly, J.L., Cave, P., Silver, J., Waldman, M., White, C., Smith, C., Tanner, R., Sanchez, M., Man, W.D., Polkey, M.I. & Hopkinson, N.S. (2012). Singing classes for chronic obstructive pulmonary disease: a randomized controlled trial. BMC Pulmonary Medicine, vol. 12, no. 1, pp. 69-69.
- McCoy, S. (2016). One Trick Pony. Journal of Singing – The Official Journal of the National Association of Teachers of Singing, vol. 72, no. 3, pp. 319-322.
- MacDonald, I., Rubin, J.S., Blake, E., Hirani, S. & Epstein, R. (2012), An Investigation of Abdominal Muscle Recruitment for Sustained Phonation in 25 Healthy Singers, Journal of Voice, vol. 26, no. 6, pp. 815.e9-815.e16.
- McNamara, R.J., Epsley, C., Coren, E. & McKeough, Z.J. (2017). Singing for adults with chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD). The Cochrane Database of Systematic Reviews, vol. 12, pp. CD012296.
- McNaughton, A., Aldington, S., Williams, G. & Levack, W.M.M. (2016). Sing Your Lungs Out: a qualitative study of a community singing group for people with chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD). BMJ Open, vol. 6, no. 9, pp. e012521. doi: 10.1136/bmjopen-2016-012521.
- McNaughton, A., Weatherall, M., Williams, M., McNaughton, H., Aldington, S., Williams, G. & Beasley, R. (2017). Sing Your Lungs Out—a community singing group for chronic obstructive pulmonary disease: a 1-year pilot study”. BMJ Open, vol. 7, no. 1, pp. e014151.
- Mohamed, E.E. & El Maghraby, R.A. (2014). Voice changes in patients with chronic obstructive pulmonary disease. Egyptian Journal of Chest Diseases and Tuberculosis, vol. 63, no. 3, pp. 561-567
- Morris, R. Hutchinson, L. (2016). If In Doubt, Breathe Out. Oxford: Compton.
- Morrison, I & Clift, S. (2013). A UK feasibility study on the value of singing for people with chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD). UNESCO Observatory Multi-Disciplinary Journal in the Arts, 3, 1-19.
- Rodenburg, P. (1992). The Right to Speak. York: Methuen Drama.
- Russell, J. (2018). Design of a Vocal Exercise Toolkit and Teaching Resource Suitable for Singing Leaders Working with Groups with COPD and Asthma. Unpublished dissertation, Cardiff Metropolitan University.
- Russell, A.M., Cave P, Taylor K, Lewis A, Hopkinson N, Wells A. (2017). Rhythm and Song: Breath management in idiopathic interstitial pneumonia’s. Pilot study. European Respiratory Journal 2017 50: PA2536; doi: 10.1183/1393003.congress-2017.PA2536.
- Skingley, A., Clift, S., Hurley, S., Price, S. & Stephens, L. (2018). Community singing groups for people with chronic obstructive pulmonary disease: participant perspectives. Perspectives in Public Health, vol. 138, no. 1, pp. 66-75.
- Skingley, A., Page, S., Clift, S., Morrison, I., Coulton, S., Treadwell, P., Vella-Burrows, T., Shipton M. & Salisbury, I. (2014) ‘Singing for Breathing’: participants’ perceptions of a group singing programme for people with COPD. Arts & Health 6: 1, pp.59-74.
- Thorpe, C.W., Cala, S.J., Chapman J., Davis P. (2001). Patterns of Breath Support in Projection of the Singing Voice. Journal of Voice – Official Journal of the Voice Foundation, vol. 15, no. 1, pp. 86-104.
- Titze, I.R. (2006). Voice Training and Therapy With a Semi-Occluded Vocal Tract: Rationale and Scientific Underpinnings. Journal of Speech, Language, and Hearing Research, vol. 49, no. 2, pp. 448-459
- Watson, J.S. (2018). Non-pharmacological management of chronic breathlessness in stable chronic obstructive pulmonary disease. British Journal of Community Nursing, vol. 23, no. 8, pp. 376-381.
- Yorke J., Swigris J., Russell A-M., Moosavi S.H., Ng Man Kwong G., Longshaw M., & Jines, P.W. (2011) Dyspnea-12 Is a Valid and Reliable Measure of Breathlessness in Patients With Interstitial Lung Disease. Chest, 139(1), 159-64.
