Music therapy in pediatric asthma improves pulmonary function while reducing hospitalizations

Loewy, Joanne V.; Goldsmith, C.; Deshpande, S.; Sun, Alec; Harris, Jennifer R.; Es, Cindy van; Zvi, Zvi Ben; Dahmer, Stephen

doi:10.1080/02770903.2020.1712725

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“…Prior to this, patients often experience symptoms such as nasal obstruction, sneezing, eye itchiness, and even dyspnea and hypoxemia. Loewy 6 recruited 173 children and divided them into three groups based on therapeutic modalities applied to them, such as listening to music, playing instruments, and breathing exercises. The results showed that MT could relieve symptoms, such as cough and chest tightness, and reduce the number of hospitalizations, absences from classes, and ER visits.…”

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Music Therapy in Pediatric Asthma: A Short Review

Zhang,

Yu,

Lin

et al. 2023

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Music therapy (MT) is a common modality that performs a complementary and integrative role along with standard treatments for many pediatric diseases. This article briefly reviewed the effects of MT on children aged 5–11 years old and adolescents with asthma from previous studies, specified its functional target towards asthma symptoms, and sorted out the design and investigation of selected research. Medline/PubMed, Embase, SportDis-cus, Cochrane Library, Teacher Reference Centre, Web of Science, Academic Search Complete, PsycARTICLES, and Scopus were queried for experimental and observational studies published between 1990 and 2021. Then, researchers showed that MT lessened patients’ asthma symptoms, improved medication compliance, pulmonary function, and quality of life, and helped children and their parents manage anxiety and depression. This article may serve as a reference for clinical research for pediatric asthma therapies and lay the foundation for future research on MT and its clinical practice.

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“…Coincidentally, music therapy (MT), as a new non-pharmacological strategy, could combine breathing exercises or simple physical activities with music and improve medication adherence as well as symptoms, lung function, and regulate mood. 2 , 6–8 This may offer a new approach to asthma treatment in asthma clinical practice.…”

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Music Therapy in Pediatric Asthma: A Short Review

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Yu,

Lin

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“…Music therapy may be a promising non-pharmacological intervention in this respect. While studies on music therapy in the first year of life are scarce, we do know that breathing exercises, singing, and playing wind instruments at school age are associated with improvements in asthma symptoms ( 17 ). The Rhythm Breath and Lullaby method that is adopted more and more in NICUs worldwide also includes interventions focused on infant breathing.…”

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Early stress during NICU stay and parent-reported health-related quality of life after extremely preterm birth: an exploratory study with possible targets for early intervention

van Dokkum,

Bos,

Kraft

et al. 2024

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IntroductionThe association between neonatal intensive care unit (NICU) related stress in preterm infants and their health-related quality of life (HRQoL) in the first year following preterm birth remains unexplored. Understanding this association is crucial for enhancing preventive and supportive measures for infants and parents within and beyond the NICU.MethodsFrom a single center observational cohort study, we included infants with gestational ages below 30 weeks and/or birth weights under 1,000 grams. HRQoL was quantified using the Infant Quality of Life Instrument (IQI) at 3-, 6-, 9- and 12-months corrected age, covering seven domains. NICU stress was quantified using the Neonatal Infant Stressor Scale (NISS) for the first week of life. We performed Spearman's correlation analyses to test this association.ResultsOf the 45 included infants, the IQI was completed for 27 (60%) at 3, 15 (33%) at 6, 14 (31%) at 9 and 15 (33%) at 12 months. The HRQoL sum scores were related to neonatal stress at 9 and 12 months (ρ = 0.643 and 0.591, p = 0.013 and p = 0.019, respectively) but not at 3 and 6 months (ρ = −0.001 and −0.077 respectively, p > 0.05). Higher NICU stress tended to be associated with more respiratory and mood problems throughout the first year.DiscussionFrom a parental perspective on infant HRQoL, extremely preterm infants with higher stress exposure show more problems in the second half-year of life, mainly breathing and possibly mood-related problems. This knowledge may help improve our neonatal care, both during NICU stay and in follow-up clinics, by implementing targeted interventions.

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“…Finally, bringing the reality of the COVID 19 pandemic into our research thinking may call upon us as a global community of music, music therapy and neuroscience researchers to expand our domains and cohorts types, directing our protocols to address novel or under-researched topics, such as the impact of music on pulmonary function. Recent music-based protocols for children and adults with chronic respiratory diseases, for example, show promise ( Canga et al, 2015 ; Loewy et al, 2020 ) despite the scarcity of clinical trials on the topic. Since breath control is reliant on a brainstem neuronal network that can be strengthened with predictability and rhythmic reinforcement, perhaps landing ourselves in projects involving music and pulmonary function might gain traction and align opportunities for innovative funding support.…”

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Mitigating the Impact of the Novel Coronavirus Pandemic on Neuroscience and Music Research Protocols in Clinical Populations

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The COVID-19 disease and the systemic responses to it has impacted lives, routines and procedures at an unprecedented level. While medical care and emergency response present immediate needs, the implications of this pandemic will likely be far-reaching. Most practices that the clinical research within neuroscience and music field rely on, take place in hospitals or closely connected clinical settings which have been hit hard by the contamination. So too have its preventive and treatment measures. This means that clinical research protocols may have been altered, postponed or put in complete jeopardy. In this context, we would like to present and discuss the problems arising under the current crisis. We do so by critically approaching an online discussion facilitated by an expert panel in the field of music and neuroscience. This effort is hoped to provide an efficient basis to orient ourselves as we begin to map the needs and elements in this field of research as we further propose ideas and solutions on how to overcome, or at least ease the problems and questions we encounter or will encounter, with foresight. Among others, we hope to answer questions on technical or social problems that can be expected, possible solutions and preparatory steps to take in order to improve or ease research implementation, ethical implications and funding considerations. Finally, we further hope to facilitate the process of creating new protocols in order to minimize the impact of this crisis on essential research which may have the potential to relieve health systems.

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Music therapy in pediatric asthma improves pulmonary function while reducing hospitalizations

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Music Therapy in Pediatric Asthma: A Short Review

Music Therapy in Pediatric Asthma: A Short Review

Early stress during NICU stay and parent-reported health-related quality of life after extremely preterm birth: an exploratory study with possible targets for early intervention

Mitigating the Impact of the Novel Coronavirus Pandemic on Neuroscience and Music Research Protocols in Clinical Populations

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