Music Therapy for Pediatric Chemotherapy Anxiety
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Authors
Streekstra, Allison
DuPre, Grace
Nava, Melissa
Date of Issue
2025-04-25
Type
Presentation
Language
en_US
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Abstract
Pediatric patients undergoing cancer treatment often face physical, emotional, and psychological distress due to treatments, such as chemotherapy and radiation. These treatments can cause pain, anxiety, and social isolation. Music therapy has come to be seen as one of the promising and effective modalities for managing these concerns through improving mood, reducing anxiety, and enabling social interaction. However, it is still essential to assess its effectiveness and incorporation within comprehensive cancer treatment. Music therapy entails an evidence-based use of music interventions by trained personnel to attain therapeutic ends such as emotional regulation, pain reduction, and psychosocial well-being. For this review standard care is any pediatric oncology care plan that does not use music therapy as a form of treatment. The focus of this Evidence-Based Practice review is to determine the effects of musical therapy on pediatric oncology patients, with emphasis on its effect on mood, anxiety, and quality of life. The findings aim to support nurses and other healthcare providers to integrate music therapy within the treatment plan to provide this non-pharmacological way of support to patients. An understanding of music therapy allows healthcare professionals to advocate for holistic treatment, improve patient-centered treatment, and foster emotional and psychological outcomes for child patients and their families.