The effects of music intervention in the management of chronic pain: a single-blind, randomized, controlled trial
Guétin S, Giniès P, Siou DK, Picot MC, Pommié C, Guldner E, Gosp AM, Ostyn K, Coudeyre E, Touchon J
The Clinical journal of pain · 75 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
- 2011-10-15 · Clin J Pain · vol. 28 · issue 4 · pp. 329–337
- Publisher
- Lippincott Williams & Wilkins
- Cited
- 142 citations · more than 95% of similar papers · 5.3× the field average
- Impact
- Top 10% most cited in its field
- References
- 32 works
- Access
- Paywalled
- Research areas
- Music Therapy and Health · Pain Management and Placebo Effect · Empathy and Medical Education
- Keywords
- Medicine, Anxiety, Intervention (counseling), Physical therapy, Randomized controlled trial, Chronic pain, Depression (economics), Music therapy, Fibromyalgia, Psychiatry, Surgery
- MeSH
- humans, anti-anxiety agents, pain measurement, music therapy, hospitalization, statistics, nonparametric, follow-up studies, single-blind method, depression, anxiety, cost of illness, adult, aged, middle aged, drug utilization, female, male, young adult, chronic pain
10 authors
From GB, FR, BE
- Stéphane Guétin · correspondingYahoo (United Kingdom); Inserm; Université Paris Cité; Sorbonne Paris Cité; Directorate-General Joint Research Centre; Laboratoire de psychologie clinique, psychopathologie, psychanalyse
- P. Giniès
- Didier Kong A. Siou
- Marie‐Christine Picot
- Christelle Pommié
- Elisabeth Guldner
Abstract
Objective
A music intervention method in the management of pain was recently developed while taking account of recommendations in the scientific literature. The objective of this study was to assess the usefulness of this music intervention to the management of patients with chronic pain.
Methods
A controlled, single-blind, randomized trial was used. Eighty-seven patients presenting with lumbar pain, fibromyalgia, inflammatory disease, or neurological disease were included in the study. During their hospitalization, the intervention arm (n=44) received at least 2 daily sessions of music listening between D0 and D10, associated with their standard treatment, and then pursued the music intervention at home until D60 using a multimedia player in which the music listening software program had been installed. The control arm received standard treatment only (n=43). The end points measured at D0, D10, D60, and D90 were: pain (VAS), anxiety-depression (HAD) and the consumption of medication.
Results
At D60 in the music intervention arm, this technique enabled a more significant reduction (P<0.001) in pain (6.3 ± 1.7 at D0 vs. 3 ± 1.7 at D60) when compared with the arm without music intervention (6.2 ± 1.5 at D0 vs. 4.6 ± 1.7 at D60). In addition, music intervention contributed to significantly reducing both anxiety/depression and the consumption of anxiolytic agents.
Discussion
These results confirm the value of music intervention to the management of chronic pain and anxiety/depression. This music intervention method appears to be useful in managing chronic pain as it enables a significant reduction in the consumption of medication.
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