Effects of a Music Therapy Intervention on Quality of Life and Distress in Women with Metastatic Breast Cancer

Hanser, Suzanne B.; Bauer‐Wu, Susan; Kubicek, Lorrie; Healey, Martha; Manola, Judith; Hernandez, Maria; Bunnell, Craig A.

doi:10.2310/7200.2006.014

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“…Henceforth, music could elicit improvement in mood via the five other domains but not in “depression/dejection.” This difference in outcomes was well illustrated in a 2011 Cochrane Review [13], which analyzed five trials examining the effect of music on depression (total N = 468 patients). Music was provided for 128 out of 182 adults with cancer receiving chemotherapy or radiation therapy [54], 34 out of 60 adults with hematologic malignancy admitted for autologous SCT [55], 27 out of 48 adults with cancer undergoing radiation therapy [56], 20 out of 42 women with metastatic breast cancer [57], and 65 out of 136 adult cancer patients with pain [18]. The pooled estimate from these five trials did not find a statistically significant effect of music on depression (SMD = −0.07, 95 % CI −0.40 to 0.27, P = 0.69).…”

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Music-based interventions in palliative cancer care: a review of quantitative studies and neurobiological literature

Archie¹,

Bruera

Cohen

2013

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PurposeThis study aimed to review quantitative literature pertaining to studies of music-based interventions in palliative cancer care and to review the neurobiological literature that may bare relevance to the findings from these studies.MethodsA narrative review was performed, with particular emphasis on RCTs, meta-analyses, and systematic reviews. The Cochrane Library, Ovid, PubMed, CINAHL Plus, PsycINFO, and ProQuest were searched for the subject headings music, music therapy, cancer, oncology, palliative care, pain, anxiety, depression, mood, quality of life, prevalence, neuroscience, functional imaging, endogenous opioids, GABA, 5HT, dopamine, and permutations of these same search terms. Data for the review were comprised of articles published between 1970 and 2012. References of all the cited articles were also reviewed.ResultsAvailable evidence suggests that music-based interventions may have a positive impact on pain, anxiety, mood disturbance, and quality of life in cancer patients. Advances in neurobiology may provide insight into the potential mechanisms by which music impacts these outcomes.ConclusionsMore research is needed to determine what subpopulation of cancer patients is most likely to respond to music-based interventions, what interventions are most effective for individual outcomes, and what measurement parameters best gauge their effectiveness.

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Music-based interventions in palliative cancer care: a review of quantitative studies and neurobiological literature

Archie¹,

Bruera

Cohen

2013

Support Care Cancer

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“…Hanser et al, 48 agnosis are more likely to use CAM and critically engage clinicians regarding CAM and biomedical care. 71,80 These issues of expectancy are at least partially independent of known direct biological effects of interventions and require improving clinical trial design and interpretation of nonspecific healing responses that constitute the placebo effect.…”

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Effects of Creative Arts Therapies on Psychological Symptoms and Quality of Life in Patients With Cancer

Puetz¹,

Morley²,

Herring³

2013

JAMA Intern Med

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Importance: Creative arts therapies (CATs) can reduce anxiety, depression, pain, and fatigue and increase quality of life (QOL) in patients with cancer. However, no systematic review of randomized clinical trials (RCTs) examining the effects of CAT on psychological symptoms among cancer patients has been conducted.Objectives: To estimate the effect of CAT on psychological symptoms and QOL in cancer patients during treatment and follow-up and to determine whether the effect varied according to patient, intervention, and design characteristics.Evidence Review: We searched ERIC, Google Scholar, MEDLINE, PsycInfo, PubMed, and Web of Science from database inception to January 2012. Studies included RCTs in which cancer patients were randomized to a CAT or control condition and anxiety, depression, pain, fatigue and/or QOL were measured pre-and post-intervention. Twenty-seven studies involving 1576 patients were included. We extracted data on effect sizes, moderators, and study quality. Hedges d effect sizes were computed, and random-effects models were used to estimate sampling error and population variance. Findings: During treatment, CAT significantly reduced anxiety (⌬ = 0.28 [95% CI, 0.11-0.44]), depression (⌬ = 0.23 [0.05-0.40]), and pain (⌬ = 0.54 [0.33-0.75]) and increased QOL (⌬ = 0.50 [0.25-0.74]). Pain was significantly reduced during follow-up (⌬ = 0.59 [95% CI, 0.42-0.77]). Anxiety reductions were strongest for studies in which ( 1) a non-CAT therapist administered the intervention compared with studies that used a creative arts therapist and (2) a waiting-list or usual-care comparison was used. Pain reductions were largest during inpatient treatment and for homogeneous cancer groups in outpatient settings; significantly smaller reductions occurred in heterogeneous groups in outpatient settings.Conclusions and Relevance: Exposure to CAT can improve anxiety, depression, and pain symptoms and QOL among cancer patients, but this effect is reduced during follow-up.

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“…The titles and abstracts were then read one by one. 10 articles were selected for the final review and delivered on one occasion [15][16][17][18][19][20][21][22][23][24]. Most of the studies (90%) reported significantly emotion improvement after music treatment compared with the control group.…”

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Music Intervention Can Improve Emotion in Cancer Patients during Disease Progression

Chen¹

2016

Arch Depress Anxiety

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Music has long been regarded to aid health and loss-adaptation, but effect of music intervention on cancer patients is not well-understood. The aims of this study are to summarize and describe the role of music before and after diagnosis. This review examines music intervention studies with randomized designs for patients with cancer published between 1991 and 2015 from three Englishlanguage databases and Chinese-language databases. Ten studies that met specific inclusion criteria were reviewed. Our review indicates that music intervention may have beneficial effects on emotion (anxiety/depression) in patients with cancer. More research is needed to ascertain the most optimal intervention methodology on which cancer populations or which treatment modalities are appropriate for such an intervention.2. Non-peer reviewed literature was excluded. Search strategyThe PICOS strategy, namely Population (P), Intervention (I), Comparison (C), Outcome (O) and Study design (S), was applied for a systematic search of the published articles. In our study, we established P (population) for cancer patients; I (intervention) for music-based intervention; C for comparison of music intervention with another type of intervention or untreated group; O for management of emotion changes and disease progress; S for exception of cross-sectional studies and surveys studies [13,14].

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Effects of a Music Therapy Intervention on Quality of Life and Distress in Women with Metastatic Breast Cancer

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Music-based interventions in palliative cancer care: a review of quantitative studies and neurobiological literature

Music-based interventions in palliative cancer care: a review of quantitative studies and neurobiological literature

Effects of Creative Arts Therapies on Psychological Symptoms and Quality of Life in Patients With Cancer

Music Intervention Can Improve Emotion in Cancer Patients during Disease Progression

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