Hämäläinen Soile, Musial Frauke, Graff Ola, Olsen Torjer A, Salamonsen Anita
a National Research Center in Complementary and Alternative Medicine, Departement of Community Medicine, Faculty of Health Sciences , UiT The Arctic University of Norway , Tromsø , Norway.
b The University Museum of Tromsø , UiT The Arctic University of Norway , Tromsø , Norway.
Int J Circumpolar Health. 2017;76(1):1271590. doi: 10.1080/22423982.2016.1271590.
Yoik is an old vocal music tradition of Sami, the indigenous people inhabiting Northern Fennoscandia and Kola peninsula in Russia. Studies of music therapy (MT) and especially singing have documented improvements in social and overall functioning in people with severe mental disorders and positive effect on depressive symptoms and sleep quality. Possible connections between yoik and health are so far underexplored.
The overall aim of this study was to explore whether yoik may have the potential to positively influence people's health and well-being. The research questions were: 1. What are different persons' experiences with yoik? 2. Can yoik experiences be related to health outcomes?
Explorative, qualitative interviews with 13 participants were conducted in the Norwegian counties Finnmark, Troms, Nordland, and Trøndelag.
The findings suggest qualities in yoik that are comparable to positive effects of Music Therapy (MT) in general. Yoik may contribute to emotion management, i.e. processing negative emotions and inducing positive ones in people acknowledging yoik as something positive.
Yoik may be considered an important marker of social and cultural belonging for many Sami people. Yoik seems to have an underresearched potential as an intervention in culture sensitive healthcare and health promotion work that deserves to be further investigated.
约伊克是萨米人的一种古老声乐传统，萨米人是居住在芬兰斯堪的纳维亚北部和俄罗斯科拉半岛的原住民。音乐疗法（MT）的研究，尤其是歌唱方面的研究，已经证明对严重精神障碍患者的社交和整体功能有改善作用，并对抑郁症状和睡眠质量有积极影响。到目前为止，约伊克与健康之间的可能联系尚未得到充分探索。
本研究的总体目标是探讨约伊克是否有可能对人们的健康和幸福产生积极影响。研究问题如下：1. 不同的人对约伊克有哪些体验？2. 约伊克体验是否与健康结果相关？
在挪威的芬马克郡、特罗姆瑟郡、诺尔兰郡和特伦德拉格郡对13名参与者进行了探索性定性访谈。
研究结果表明，约伊克的特质与一般音乐疗法（MT）的积极效果相当。约伊克可能有助于情绪管理，即在那些将约伊克视为积极事物的人中处理负面情绪并引发积极情绪。
约伊克可能被视为许多萨米人社会和文化归属感的重要标志。约伊克作为一种对文化敏感的医疗保健和健康促进工作的干预措施，似乎具有尚未得到充分研究的潜力，值得进一步研究。
