The effect of a group music intervention for grief resolution on disenfranchised grief of hospice workers

Compassion Fatigue Among Healthcare, Emergency And Community Service Workers: A Systematic Review

“…The majority of studies were of low to moderate quality (n = 11), with only two RCT studies included in our review [38,40]. The majority of studies (n = 10) employed a pre-post design, most of which did not include a long-term follow up (ě8 weeks).…”

“…Of the remaining four included studies, two evaluated interventions focused on building individual resilience [34,35], one aimed to build professional self-efficacy [43], and Stanton et al [36] used Transcranial Magnetic Stimulation to increase resilience and empathy, and reduce stress. Eleven studies described single-faceted interventions focusing on yoga, mindfulness, meditation, or music therapy [31][32][33]37,38,40,42], resilience and coping [34,35,41], or transcranial magnetic stimulation [36]. In contrast, Berger et al [43] and Flarity et al [39] described more complex interventions involving on multiple, interactive sessions focused on promoting professional self-efficacy, improving theoretical knowledge, and assigning homework tasks, and individual and group exercises, guided imagery, take home materials including print-outs, DVDs and music CDs, and access to educational resources and publications, respectively.…”

“…In contrast, Berger et al [43] and Flarity et al [39] described more complex interventions involving on multiple, interactive sessions focused on promoting professional self-efficacy, improving theoretical knowledge, and assigning homework tasks, and individual and group exercises, guided imagery, take home materials including print-outs, DVDs and music CDs, and access to educational resources and publications, respectively. The included studies differed in their methodology; ten studies (76.9%) [31][32][33][34][35][36][37]39,41,42] used a pre/post design, two studies (15.4%) used randomised controlled designs (RCTs), one with a waitlist control group [38], the other with a no treatment, concurrent control group [40]. Finally, Berger et al [43] used a quasi-random control trial with a wait list control group.…”

Improving the wellbeing of staff who work in palliative care settings: A systematic review of psychosocial interventions

“…The methodological quality of the quantitative studies was assessed by two researchers using the Quality Assessment Tool for Quantitative Studies, 30 which provides an overall rating of weak, moderate or strong quality for each study. Overall only two 35,36 of the nine studies…”

“…Art therapy 41 and didactic music therapy 34 demonstrated a moderate improvement in psychological outcomes. Additionally, it should be highlighted that the majority of authors indicate that psychological wellbeing was not significantly impaired on the outcome measure pre-intervention [33][34][35][36][37] , or else this wasn't clear. 40,41 However in one study staff were at an increased risk of major depression 38 and in another, staff were suffering high stress levels.…”