Musician's dystonia, a neurological disorder, endangers the professional life of musicians. Reportedly, stress is associated with exacerbation of its symptoms. For this study, for psychological consideration of stress before and after the onset of musician's dystonia and for its development of support for it, a questionnaire survey designed to elicit responses describing event experiences, QOL, emotions, cognition, motivation, and coping behavior was administered to 17 professional performers. Responses indicate that 14 (82.4%) had experienced an "event with strong stress", 12 people (70.6%) described a musician's dystonia occurrence as an "event with strong stress", and 12 (70.6%) described musician's dystonia as "the most stressful event". Furthermore, around the onset of musician's dystonia, low "role physical/role emotional" and "mental health" were found, with high "negative perception of self" and "feelings of remorse for trauma" cognitive evaluation occurring after the onset of musician's dystonia, and reported high "state anxiety" during performances. These results suggest that musician's dystonia can be a broad traumatic stress, leading professional performers to maintain self-negative and self-responsible cognitive assessment and high anxiety during performances over a long period of time.
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