Effects of music therapy on anxiety of patients with breast cancer after radical mastectomy: a randomized clinical trial
Li XM, Zhou KN, Yan H, Wang DL, Zhang YP
Journal of advanced nursing · 54 citations
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How it was studied
- Design
- Randomized controlled trial (indexed by PubMed)
- Studied in
- People
- Main outcome
- Health markers and function
Who paid for it
- Funding
- Funding not disclosed
Publication
- Published
- 2011-10-06 · J Adv Nurs · vol. 68 · issue 5 · pp. 1145–1155
- Publisher
- Wiley
- Cited
- 121 citations · more than 95% of similar papers · 5.6× the field average
- Impact
- Top 10% most cited in its field
- References
- 36 works
- Access
- Paywalled
- Research areas
- Music Therapy and Health · Art Therapy and Mental Health · Acupuncture Treatment Research Studies
- Keywords
- Medicine, Anxiety, Randomized controlled trial, Breast cancer, Mastectomy, Music therapy, Physical therapy, Radical mastectomy, Clinical trial, Modified Radical Mastectomy, Cancer, Internal medicine, Psychiatry
- MeSH
- humans, breast neoplasms, treatment outcome, music therapy, mastectomy, radical, analysis of variance, anxiety, nursing evaluation research, adult, aged, middle aged, china, female, surveys and questionnaires
5 authors
From CN, GB
- Xiaomei LiXi'an Jiaotong University
- Kaina ZhouXi'an Jiaotong University
- HONG HUA YANXi'an Jiaotong University
- Duolao WangUniversity of London; London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine
- Yin‐Ping ZhangXi'an Jiaotong University
Abstract
Aim
This paper is a report of a clinical trial of the effects of music therapy on anxiety of female breast cancer patients following radical mastectomy.
Background
There is insufficient evidence on the effects of music therapy on state anxiety of breast cancer patients following radical mastectomy.
Methods
A Hall's Core, Care, and Cure Model-based clinical trial was conducted in 120 female breast cancer patients from March to November 2009. A randomized controlled design was utilized. The patients were randomly allocated to the experimental group (n = 60) received music therapy in addition to routine nursing care, and the control group (n = 60) only received routine nursing care. A standardized questionnaire and the State Anxiety Inventory were applied. The primary endpoint was the state anxiety score measured at pretest (on the day before radical mastectomy) and at three post-tests (on the day before patients were discharged from hospital, the second and third time of admission to hospital for chemotherapy respectively).
Results
The pretest score revealed that the majority of the patients had a moderate level (77·5%) and 15% had severe level of state anxiety. The repeated-measure ancova model analysis indicated that the mean state anxiety score was significantly lower in the experimental group than those in the control group at each of the three post-test measurements. The mean difference between the experimental and control group together with 95% confidence intervals were -4·57 (-6·33, -2·82), -8·91 (-10·75, -7·08) and -9·69 (-11·52, -7·85) at the 1st post-test, 2nd post-test and 3rd post-test respectively.
Conclusion
Music therapy is found to have positive effects on decreasing state anxiety score.
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