The effectiveness of music therapy for patients with cancer: A systematic review and meta‐analysis

Li, Yanfei; Xing, Xin; Shi, Xiue; Yan, Peijing; Chen, Yajing; Li, Meixuan; Zhang, Weiyi; Li, Xiuxia; Yang, Kehu

doi:10.1111/jan.14313

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“…Music therapy is a health discipline that involves using music and conducting musical activities to treat individuals with specific physical, emotional, cognitive, and social needs [26]. Goals in music and medicine in general may be summarized according to the following: [53].…”

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“…Evidence-based use of music therapy is directed to accomplish physical, emotional, cognitive, and social needs of individuals [25]. Even though recent systematic review show that music therapy is the most advantageous for improving quality of life and reducing anxiety, depression, pain, and fatigue in cancer patients [26], there is no systematic review evaluating the effect of music therapy on breast cancer patient group. To the best of our knowledge, this is the first systematic review analysing the effect of music therapy in breast cancer patient group.…”

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confidence: 99%

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The Effect of Art Therapy and Music Therapy on Breast Cancer Patients: What We Know and What We Need to Find Out—A Systematic Review

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Jautakytė

Rauckienė-Michaelsson

et al. 2020

Evidence-Based Complementary and Alternative Medicine

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Objective. To systematically review the evidence available on the effects of art therapy and music therapy interventions in patients with breast cancer. Design. Systematic search was conducted in PubMed, EBSCO, and Cochrane Central databases. Articles were scanned using the following keywords: “art therapy” or “music therapy” and “breast cancer” or “breast neoplasms,” “breast carcinoma,” “breast tumor,” and “mammary cancer.” Only RCTs published in English, with a control group and experimental group, and presenting pre-/post-therapy results were included. PRISMA guidelines for this systematic review were followed. Results. Twenty randomized controlled trials matched the eligibility criteria. Nine studies evaluated the effect of art therapy, and eleven evaluated the effect of music therapy. Improvements were measured in stress, anxiety, depression reduction, pain, fatigue, or other cancer-related somatic symptoms’ management. Overall, the results show that art therapy was oriented towards the effects on quality of life and emotional symptoms while music therapy is the most often applied for anxiety reduction purposes during or before surgeries or chemotherapy sessions. Conclusion. Art and music therapies show effective opportunities for breast cancer patients to reduce negative emotional state and improve the quality of life and seem to be promising nonmedicated treatment options in breast oncology. However, more detailed and highly descriptive single therapy and primary mental health outcome measuring RCTs are necessary to draw an evidence-based advise for the use of art and music therapies.

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Section: Music Erapymentioning

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The Effect of Art Therapy and Music Therapy on Breast Cancer Patients: What We Know and What We Need to Find Out—A Systematic Review

Kievišienė

Jautakytė

Rauckienė-Michaelsson

et al. 2020

Evidence-Based Complementary and Alternative Medicine

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“…10 According to recent systematic review, music therapy seems to be the most effective for elevating QOL and decreasing pain, fatigue, depression and anxiety for cancer patients. 11 Music therapy and art therapy reveal effective opportunities for patients with cancer for reducing negative emotional status and improving QOL. 12 It seems to have promising efficacy for non-medicated therapeutic options.…”

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Recent topics of complementary & alternative medicine (CAM) include music/art therapy and hospital art

Bando¹

2021

IJCAM

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Recently, Complementary and Alternative Medicine (CAM) and Integrative Medicine (IM) have been broadly developed. IM involves both of CAM and Western Medicine (WM). Integrative Medicine Japan (IMJ) has developed CAM/IM in Japan, and author has managed Shikoku Island division of IMJ. Current topics include the music/art therapy for cancer patients, and hospital art (art in hospital) using convenient masking tape for satisfaction and improved health outcomes. The word "health" is from the Sanskrit language "Swasth", which is combined of SWA (my) + STH (exist, keep) with meaning of self-existence under self-consciousness. Thus, CAM/IM can contribute the promotion of health.

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“…Some meta-analyses have reported a superior effect of music-based intervention on the decreased anxiety and depression levels in pregnant women, patients with cancer, and patients with surgical operation. [ 11 , 12 ] A recent network meta-analysis by Watt et al [ 13 ] found that music-based intervention was more efficacious than pharmacologic interventions for reducing aggression and agitation in adults with dementia. During the past 10 years, a total of five meta-analyses regarding the therapeutic file://C:\Documents and Settings\Administrator\Local Settings\Application Data\youdao\dict\Application\7.5.2.0\resultui\dict\?keyword = effect of music-based intervention on aggressive behavior were published [ 13 – 17 ] ; however, no study focused on children and adolescents.…”

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Music-based intervention to reduce aggressive behavior in children and adolescents

Huang

Zhou

et al. 2021

Medicine

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Background: We aimed to evaluate the effect of music-based intervention on the aggressive behavior in children and adolescents, and made a comparison of music medicine and music therapy. Methods: We searched PubMed (MEDLINE), Ovid-Embase, and the Cochrane Central Register of Controlled Trials (CENTRAL) to identify relevant studies. Standardized mean differences (SMDs) were estimated with random-effect model. Results: We included 10 studies and found a significant decrease of aggressive behavior (SMD = −0.99; 95% CI = −1.42 to −0.56) and a significant increase of self-control (SMD = 0.56; 95% CI: 0.19 to 0.93) in the music-based intervention group compared with the control group. The aggressive behavior was significantly decreased in the music therapy group compared with the control group (SMD = −1.79; 95% CI = −3.23 to −0.35); while, no difference was observed between music medicine group and control group. Sub-group analyses exhibited a more efficacious in reducing aggressive behavior in the children received ≥2 sessions per week, the children with a mean age > 10 years, the children whose behavior were reported by teachers, and the children with aggressive behavior before intervention. Sensitivity analyses yielded similar results. Conclusion: Music-based intervention seemed to be more efficacious for reducing aggression and increasing self-control in children and adolescents, especially music therapy.

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The effectiveness of music therapy for patients with cancer: A systematic review and meta‐analysis

Cited by 79 publications

References 39 publications

The Effect of Art Therapy and Music Therapy on Breast Cancer Patients: What We Know and What We Need to Find Out—A Systematic Review

The Effect of Art Therapy and Music Therapy on Breast Cancer Patients: What We Know and What We Need to Find Out—A Systematic Review

Recent topics of complementary & alternative medicine (CAM) include music/art therapy and hospital art

Music-based intervention to reduce aggressive behavior in children and adolescents

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