The Effects Of Music Therapy On Patients With Cancer

The participants totally 18 patients were divided in to two groups of nine. One group received comprehensive rehabilitation treatment and an additional music therapy treatment. This group participated in a total of eight music therapy sessions, two sessions per week for four weeks. The other nine patients in the control group did not receive music therapy. Each session were 40-minutes consisting of a hello song and sharing of events in their lives for a period of 5 minutes, planned musical activities for 30 minutes, and a sharing of feelings and goodbye song for 5 minutes. Patients were encouraged to sing and improvise. Tests aimed to assess depression and anxiety were given to both groups before and after the sessions. The study, found that anxiety decreased for 5 patients in the music group and depression decreased significantly in the music therapy group as well. Furthermore, 66.7% of patients and 55.6% of caregivers reported that music therapy, helps rehabilitation, and motivates. 77.8% of patients and 66.7% of their caregivers reported that music therapy had a positive psychological change. (Kim et al., 2011)

Music therapy distracts the patient from the pain. For instance, music treatment can be utilized as a part of an expansion to morphine and other painkiller to decrease torment as a feature of a more comprehensive way to deal with palliative care techniques. It gives an agony diversion alternative that is not a pharmaceutical.This would make the patient turn out to be less

“The American Music Therapy Association (AMTA) defines music therapy as ‘an established health profession in which music is used within a therapeutic relationship to address physical, emotional, cognitive, and social needs of individuals’” (Barnett & Shale, 2013, p.48). Music Therapy (MT) is shown to be able to help people with many different kinds of mental health problems such as anxiety, stress, and minor cases of depression. There have been many studies done showing that MT is an effective form of therapy that can improve someone’s overall Quality Of Life (QOL). MT is known as an alternative technique therapy. It is often used instead of, or along with, medication to produce a result in the patient who need it. MT involves all

Another big part of music therapy in palliative care is that it isn't just about the terminally ill patient. It is as much about bringing closure to the patients' families as it is getting the patient more comfortable and in control of their inevitable end. A huge part of palliative music therapy is helping make the patient as comfortable and in control of the time they have left, and this time also includes helping the people close to the patient with the truth and helping them find closure once the time has come for the patient to pass on. Amy Clements-Cortes (2016) writes, "At the end of life, music therapy is not only beneficial to patients with anticipatory grief but it is also valuable in supporting grief and bereavement of family and

In light of this, music treatment can and regularly is utilized as a part of a wide assortment of utilizations. One basic application for music treatment is in working with mentally unbalanced people since research has found that music can help extremely introverted kids to convey what needs be. Moreover, music treatment has been found to help people with physical handicaps to grow better engine

Nowadays, hospitals use music therapy as accessible and effective way of treating psychological disorders, to diminish the need for medication during childbirth, or to decrease postoperative pain and counterpart the use of anesthesia during medical procedures. Consequently, listening to music can reduce chronic pain from a range of painful conditions, including osteoarthritis, disc problems and rheumatoid arthritis, by up to 21% and depression by up to 25%, according to a paper in the UK-based

Music therapy was once used as an alternative choice for therapy, but as we grow in time, music therapy is being used more and more. Music therapy is used for all kinds of illnesses from brain damage to autism to stress management. As research shows, music therapy causes the release of endorphins in the brain. When someone listens to music that works to calm them or make them happier. Every day, music therapy is becoming even more popular no matter where it is practiced (the Intensive Care Units, therapy offices, youth centers, etc.). It is also becoming increasingly incorporated in the medical industry. Music therapy is a very complex system.

Music therapy is a kind of expressive treatment that utilizations music to enhance and keep up the physical, mental, and social prosperity of people. It is a form of popular healing that involves basically a lot of variety of activities such as listening to music, singing, and playing an instrument like the guitar. All of this type of therapy is run by a trained therapist. Most of which are used in the hospitals, nursing homes, and rehabilitation centers. It has shown to be very effective. Music Therapy should be used in today’s society because music helps distract patients from pain, increases athletic performance, and helps to relax the patients (“Music” 1).

This paper will conduct a critical appraisal of research over “Effects of music therapy on anxiety of patients with breast cancer after radical mastectomy: a randomized clinical trial” by Li, Wang, Yan, Zhang & Zhou published in July 2011.

Music therapy can help alleviate a patient’s anxiety and stress that they experience while going through treatment for their select illness. Some of them work through

Music therapy is the prescribed use of music credited by a profession to effect positive changes of an individual’s cognitive, psychological, physical, and or health problems.1 Music therapy involves interactions between the therapist, client, and music.1 There are many different forms of music therapy, such as, group music therapy, music assisted relaxation, and receptive music therapy.2,3,4 Through musical elements such as rhythm, melody, and harmony the therapist and client can develop a relationship that can improve the proper communication that can be helpful to those who find it difficult to express themselves through words and or overcome negative emotions that they may be experiencing.1,5,6 The purpose of this paper is to determine if music therapy has the ability to lower the levels of anxiety and stress in an individual.

Controlled studies that evaluated the effect of music therapy in a population who have experienced episodes of depression. I required that studies have complete outcome available, accurate conclusion measurement, appropriate selection of the comparison group and elimination or control of factors such as bias.

Pain, increased weakness, decreased intake of food and fluid, altered breathing patterns are some physical symptoms often experienced by the terminally ill (Kouch, 2006 as cited in Leow, Drury & Poon, 2010). Treating pain in the terminally ill is very important and challenging for nurses. Therefore, it is important to use both pharmacologic and nonpharmacological methods to reduce pain. The ability of nurses to use music therapy as a nonpharmacological method to manage pain in the terminally ill is a phenomenon of great importance to nursing. Terminally ill in this literature refers to patients with cancer that have six months or less to live and patients that are hospice or are undergoing palliative care. This literature revealed that using a multivariate analysis of covariance (MANCOVA), significantly less posttest pain was reported in the music versus the control group. Cancer patients that listened to soft music in addition to using analgesics experienced increased compared to those using analgesics alone (Huang, Good, & Zauszniewski, 2010). Furthermore, statistical difference was noticed between the groups for mood level and oxygen saturation during live saxophone performance (Burrai, Micheluzzi, & Bugani, 2014). In addition, this research indicated that music may have a more positive effect on females and elderly than younger and more educated males (Chan, Chung, Chung, & Lee, 2008). The

Music therapy has the ability to change lives in a very powerful way, and science has shown us that it can have a positive effect on the quality of a person’s life. Music therapy is a healthcare practice that utilizes clinical and evidence-based music therapy methods to address stress, wellness, pain, physical rehabilitation, and to improve a person’s quality of life. It can have a significantly positive effect on people—physically and emotionally. While the earliest known mention of music being used as a therapy appeared in 1789 in a Columbian Magazine unsigned article, "Music Physically Considered”, the idea really started to evolve when the profession formally began after World War I and World War II. Musicians of all types went to Veterans hospitals to play for large numbers of veterans that were suffering from both emotional and physical trauma from the wars. The patients ' beneficial physical and emotional responses to the music led the doctors and nurses to hire a staff of in-house musicians by the hospitals to support the recovery of the troops. Music therapy has long been used to help people emotionally as well as physically. The results have been powerful and are seen to be positive—yet still people are sceptical about the practice of this therapy. How can music possibly affect the human body physically? Why does it change our emotions? It almost sounds a bit new age; more like an “alternative” medicine than something that has been scientifically proven and is more

The health issue under examination is this study is psychological distress among cancer patients treated with radiotherapy. The researchers examine this health issue because oncology patients usually respond to diagnosis and treatment through emotional expressions or symptoms in the form of anxiety. Some of the most commonly expressed forms of anxiety include stress, depression, fear, and frustration (Chen, Wang, Shih & Wu, 2013, p.436). While these researchers focus on how music therapy helps to lessen this anxiety, they do not demonstrate how it is