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Music therapy offers a nonpharmacologic and safe alternative. Objectives: To determine the efficacy of a single music therapy session to reduce pain in palliative care patients. Methods: Two hundred inpatients at University Hospitals Case Medical Center were enrolled in the study from 2009 to 2011. Patients were randomly assigned to one of two ...
- Music Therapy in Hospice and Palliative Care: a Review of the ...
Most of these provide descriptions of music therapy programs...
- Music Therapy in Palliative Care: A Randomized Controlled ...
Abstract Background. Music therapy has been used...
- Music therapy for end-of-life care: An updated systematic ...
Results: Three studies were included in the review. Findings...
- Music Therapy in Hospice and Palliative Care: a Review of the ...
May 1, 2013 · Pain medications primarily target the sensory (intensity) dimension of pain. 1 Music therapy, defined as the clinical and evidence-based use of music interventions to accomplish individualized goals within a therapeutic relationship by a credentialed professional who has completed an approved music therapy program, 2 offers a low-risk, low-cost, nonpharmacologic adjunct to standard care. 3 The ...
- Kathy Jo Gutgsell, Mark D Schluchter, Seunghee Margevicius, Peter Alexander DeGolia, Beth McLaughlin...
- 2013
Most of these provide descriptions of music therapy programs in hospices or hospital-based palliative care units and utilize case examples to illustrate how music therapy addressed patient and family needs (11–21). Theories on the use of music therapy have been published in the literature, and they describe the various theoretical perspectives in the utilization of music for people who are ...
There are few quantitative music therapy studies on pain in hospice and palliative care. A 2010 Cochrane review of music therapy at the end of life included five trials. Only two small studies with a combined sample size of. 45 examined the effect of music therapy on pain in hospice patients.
Abstract Background. Music therapy has been used successfully for over 30 years as part of palliative care programs for severely ill patients. There is nonetheless a lack of high-quality studies that would enable an evidence-based evaluation of its psychological and physiological effects.
Results: Three studies were included in the review. Findings suggest that music therapy may be effective for helping to reduce pain in palliative care patients (standard mean deviation = -0.42, 95% confidence interval = -0.68 to -0.17, p = 0.001). Conclusion: Available evidence did not support the use of music therapy to improve overall quality ...
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Palliative care represents an effective approach to reduce the suffering of these patients. 2 Palliative care initially focused on advanced cancer but in recent years has increasingly extended to the early stage of serious illness, and it has proliferated around the world. 3–5 The World Health Organization delimited that palliative care is a way to improve the quality of life (QoL) of ...
