{"id":10542,"date":"2026-04-02T16:21:39","date_gmt":"2026-04-02T16:21:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/in.nau.edu\/sherc\/?p=10542"},"modified":"2026-04-02T16:47:00","modified_gmt":"2026-04-02T16:47:00","slug":"ppp-year-9-roddy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/in.nau.edu\/sherc\/ppp-year-9-roddy\/","title":{"rendered":"Enhancing Health in Rural Populations: Music as Therapy"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2>Pilot Project, Year 9<\/h2>\n<div class=\"eplus-bg-color-row bg-color-extra-light-gray\"><div class=\"eplus-bg-color-row-content\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Summary of project:\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"1\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Music-based interventions (MBIs) have shown benefits for mental health and cognitive functioning, but their use among individuals with memory loss or chronic health challenges is understudied.<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"1\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">This project will adapt an existing MBI curriculum for adults in Northern Arizona and evaluate its effects through a quasi-experimental design with pre\/post measures and interviews.<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"1\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The intervention uses group music sessions to promote cognitive engagement, emotional regulation, and social connectedness.<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"1\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Results will help determine the feasibility and early impact of MBIs tailored for cognitive health across a range of community settings.<\/span><\/div><\/div><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>Funding:<\/strong> The study is funded by NIMHD\/NIH 5U54MD012388<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<h3>About the investigators<\/h3>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<div>\n<h4><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft wp-image-10527\" src=\"https:\/\/in.nau.edu\/sherc\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/392\/Ariel-Roddy-300x300.jpg\" alt=\"A woman with red hair against a green, grassy background\" width=\"200\" height=\"200\" srcset=\"https:\/\/in.nau.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/392\/Ariel-Roddy-300x300.jpg 300w, https:\/\/in.nau.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/392\/Ariel-Roddy-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/in.nau.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/392\/Ariel-Roddy-600x600.jpg 600w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 200px) 100vw, 200px\" \/>Ariel Roddy<\/h4>\n<\/div>\n<div>\n<div data-speechify-sentence=\"\"><strong>Principal Investigator<\/strong><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div>Assistant Professor, Department of Criminology &amp; Criminal Justice<\/div>\n<div><strong>Email: <\/strong><a href=\"mailto:ariel.roddy@nau.edu\">ariel.roddy@nau.edu<\/a><\/div>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><em><a href=\"https:\/\/in.nau.edu\/sherc\/pilot-project-program\/year-9\">Back to PPP Year 9<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Pilot Project, Year 9 Funding: The study is funded by NIMHD\/NIH 5U54MD012388 About the investigators &nbsp; Ariel Roddy Principal Investigator Assistant Professor, Department of Criminology &amp; Criminal Justice Email: ariel.roddy@nau.edu &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; Back to PPP Year 9<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":782,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[359],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-10542","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-ppp"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/in.nau.edu\/sherc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10542","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/in.nau.edu\/sherc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/in.nau.edu\/sherc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/in.nau.edu\/sherc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/782"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/in.nau.edu\/sherc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10542"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/in.nau.edu\/sherc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10542\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10559,"href":"https:\/\/in.nau.edu\/sherc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10542\/revisions\/10559"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/in.nau.edu\/sherc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10542"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/in.nau.edu\/sherc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10542"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/in.nau.edu\/sherc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10542"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}