The effectiveness of music therapy for patients with cancer: A systematic review and meta-analysis
Li Y, Xing X, Shi X, Yan P, Chen Y, Li M, Zhang W, Li X, Yang K
Journal of advanced nursing · 83 citations
How it was studied
- Design
- Meta-analysis (indexed by PubMed)
- Studied in
- People
- Main outcome
- Health markers and function
Who paid for it
- Funding
- Independent funding
- Nonprofit
- China Medical Board
- Government
- Fundamental Research Funds for the Central Universities
- Government
- Soft Science in Gansu Province
- Nonprofit
- China Medical Board Open Project Funding
- Grants
- Fundamental Research Funds for the Central Universities (18LZUJBWZX006); Fundamental Research Funds for the Central Universities (2019JBKYJC002); China Medical Board (CMB #17‐279)
Based on 4 listed funder(s).
Publication
- Published
- 2020-02-04 · J Adv Nurs · vol. 76 · issue 5 · pp. 1111–1123
- Publisher
- Wiley
- Cited
- 152 citations · more than 92% of similar papers · 3.3× the field average
- Impact
- Top 10% most cited in its field
- References
- 43 works
- Access
- Open access (repository copy) · CC-BY-NC-SA
- Research areas
- Music Therapy and Health · Acupuncture Treatment Research Studies · Pain Management and Placebo Effect
- Keywords
- Music therapy, Anxiety, Medicine, Randomized controlled trial, Meta-analysis, Quality of life (healthcare), Depression (economics), Physical therapy, Intervention (counseling), Systematic review, MEDLINE, Clinical trial, Internal medicine, Psychiatry, Nursing
- MeSH
- humans, neoplasms, music therapy, stress, psychological, anxiety disorders, quality of life, adult, aged, aged, 80 and over, middle aged, female, male
9 authors
From CN
- Yanfei LiLanzhou University
- Xin XingLanzhou University
- Xinyu ShiGansu Provincial Hospital
- Peijing YanGansu Provincial Hospital
- Yajing ChenLanzhou University
- Meixuan LiLanzhou University
Abstract
Aims
To assess the effectiveness of music therapy on the quality of life, anxiety, depression and pain of patients with cancer.
Design
Systematic review.
Data sources
Five electronic databases were searched in September 2018 for randomized controlled trials evaluating music therapy for patients with cancer.
Review methods
The quality of the studies was assessed using the risk of bias tool recommended by the Cochrane Handbook Version 5.1.0 and the Revman version 5.3 software was used to perform the meta-analysis. The outcomes were overall quality of life, anxiety, depression and pain.
Results
A total of 19 trials evaluating 1,548 patients were included in this study, of which 765 were in the control group and 783 in the experimental group. Compared with standard care, music therapy can significantly increase the score of the overall quality of life in patients with cancer. In addition, music therapy was found to be more effective for decreasing the score of anxiety, depression and pain.
Conclusion
Music therapy can improve the overall quality of life of patients with cancer, with an observed optimal intervention duration of 1-2 months. Meanwhile, anxiety, depression and pain are improved as well. Nevertheless, high-quality trials are still needed to further determine the effects of music intervention in supportive cancer care.
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