Music improves sleep quality

Compared with standard care or no treatment, listening to music alone or with standard care improved subjective sleep quality in adults with insomnia symptoms. There was no evidence that music affected the length of time it took to fall asleep, the amount of actual sleep someone got or the number of times they woke up. There was no difference in the effect on sleep quality between trials using researcher-selected music and trials giving participants a choice from a number of pre-selected types of music. There were no adverse effects reported. The studies examined the effect of listening to pre-recorded music daily, for 25–60 minutes at sleep initiation, for a period of 3 days to 5 weeks.