In the Fancourt et al. 2018 UK trial, women who participated in the singing intervention showed faster improvement in depressive symptoms compared to participants in the control interventions.
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- https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC6098577 (pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov)
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