| Year | Authors | *CF/*TF | Music Providers/ Agitation Raters | Using tool | Timing | Duration | Frequency | Total-Week | Total Session |
| 1993 | Gerdner & Swanson | *PLST | *PI (Nurse)/PI | An audio cassette player | 3:30 pm - 4:00 pm (Prior to peak level of agitation) | 30 min | 5 days | 2 wks (*W1: baseline, W2: Music) | - |
| 1994 | Goddaer & Abraham | PLST | PI (Nurse)/A trained independent rater | A tape player | Meal time | - | - | 4 wks (W1, 3: no music W2, 4: music) | - |
| 1995
| Tabloski et al. | PLST | Researchers/ Researchers | A CD player | When agitation occurs | 15 min | 1/week | 2 wks | 2 |
| 1996 | Ragneskog et al. | - | Staff/authors | A tape recorder | Meal time (Dinner) | 30 - 45 min | - | 11 wks (W1: baseline W2, 3, 5 - 6, 8 - 9: music; W4, 7, 10 - 11: no music) | 40 |
| 1997 | Denney | PLST | - | A tape player | Meal time: 11:45 am - 1:15 pm | 90 min | Daily
| 4 wks (W1, 3: No music W2, 4: Music) | 14 |
| 1997 | Gerdner | *IMIA | - |
| Peak agitation time | 30 min | 2/week | 6 wks (classical music), 2 wks (no music), 6 wks (religious music) |
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| 1997 | Thomas et al. | - | *CNA/CNA | A tape recorder | Bathing time | - | - | - | 3 |
| 1998 | Clark et al. | - | *RAs/RAs | A CD radio cassette recorder | Bathing time | - | - | 2 wks: no music 2 wks: music | 10 |
| 2000 | Gerdner | IMIA | RAs/RAs | A portable audio cassette player | Peak agitation time | 30 min | 2/week | W2 - 4: baseline W5 - 10: Individualized music, W11 - 12: wash-out, W13 - 18: Classical music |
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| 2001 | Ragneskog et al. | - | Staff/Researchers | A prerecorded cassette recorder | Most agitated time | 30 min |
| Control period: no music, 2 periods: individualized music, 1 period: classical music | 4 - 5 |
| 2004 | Richeson & Neill | *NDB | Therapeutic recreation specialist, nursing staff, & researchers/ researchers | A CD player | Meal time: 5 pm - 6 pm. | 60 min | 4/week | W1: baseline W2: Music | - |
| 2005 | Gerdner | PLST, IMIA | CNA/CNA | A portable CD player | Peak agitation time | 30 min | Daily | Month 1: baseline, month 2 - 3: music | - |
| 2005 | Hicks- Moore | - | -/researchers | - | Meal time | - | Daily | W1, 3: no music, W2, 4: music | - |
| 2006 | Sung et al. | - | Trained nurses/- | - | Mid-afternoon | 30 min | 2/week | 6 wks | - |
| 2006 | Sung et al. | - | A nursing researcher & RAs/nursing staff | A CD player | 3:00 - 3:30 pm | 30 min | 2/week | 4 wks | 8 |
| 2008 | Hicks- Moore & Robinson | - | RNs or Faculty/RA | A portable CD player | when agitation occurred | 10 min |
| - | 1 |
| 2009 | Park & Specht | PLST | Family caregivers/family caregivers | A portable CD player | Peak agitation time | 30 min | 2/week | W1 - 2, 5 - 6: music W3 - 4, 7 - 8: no music | 8 |
| 2010 | Cooke et al. | - | Musicians/RAs | Guitar, pre-recorded instrumental music | Morning | 40 min | 3/week | W1 - 8: music, W9 - 13: wash out, W14 - 21: reading | 16 |
| 2011 | Ho et al. | - | Researchers | A CD player | Meal time | 60 min | daily | 4 wks | 28 |
| 2011 | Lin et al. | - | Researcher | Group activities | - | 30 min | 2/week | 6 wks | 12 |
| 2011 | Sung et al. | - | RAs | Percussion instruments | Mid afternoon | 30 min | 2/week | 6 wks | 12 |
| 2013 | Dunn & Riley- Doucet | - | Formal caregivers | A CD player | Any time in a private corner | - | M | W1 - 2: non-religious music W3 - 4: religious music (or the other way) | 34 |
| 2013 | Park | - | PI | A CD player | Peak agitation time | 30 min | 2/week | 2 wks | 4 |