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Eligibility criteria

Item Inclusion criteria Exclusion criteria
Participants Healthy individuals Unhealthy individuals (clinical
conditions)
Professional and amateur musicians Sample without group of choral
singers
Adolescent and adult choir singers Children under 12 years old
Single-group design (no comparison group) Only individual singing
Studies with comparison group
(including choir singers)
Concept Studies that address wellbeing of healthy Any kind of clinical context
individuals singing in a choir Virtual singing due to
COVID-19
Context Psychological, social, emotional and
physical wellbeing
Evidence Studies published in the English language Non-English language studies
sources
Qualitative, quantitative and mixed method Case studies
approaches
Studies published from 2001-2023 Studies published before 2000

Inclusion Criteria for the Selected Studies

After gathering the studies, titles and abstracts were reviewed to determine their
suitability and alignment with the eligibility criteria (Table 1). The next step in-
volved excluding studies that did not meet the specified criteria for inclusion. Sub-
sequently, full-text papers were obtained to gather all necessary information for
further systematic analysis. If certain studies did not align with the research con-
cept, context, or sample criteria, they were also eliminated. This process resulted
in a final selection of papers to be included in the systematic analysis (Figure 1).

Charting the Data

The extracted information encompassed crucial details: the primary author’s
name and publication year, the study’s title, the methods employed for data col-
lection (including types of questionnaires, interviews, or other forms of data
gathering), the study design and methodologies utilized, the characteristics of
participants or communities (size, age and whether they participated in group
or solo singing), the research objectives, the specifics of singing engagement
(including frequency), various aspects of wellbeing considered and the princi-
pal findings derived from the studies.

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