“…In the literature, six reviews on music therapy have been published (Bradt & Dileo, ; Keenan & Keithley, ; Nightingale, Rodriguez, & Carnaby, ; Ostermann, Boyde, & Linden, ; Tsai et al, ; Zhang et al, ). In three reviews (Ostermann et al, ; Tsai et al, ; Zhang et al, ), the effects of music therapy on patients with cancer were analysed and similar results were obtained, thereby demonstrating that music therapy effectively improved the pain, anxiety and depression of patients with cancer. In one review (Bradt & Dileo, ), the effects of music therapy on psychological, physiological and social responses in end‐of‐life care were analysed.…”