Although the whole family is affected by a parent’s palliative disease, palliative care research does not yet routinely consider patients’ minor children. Children’s and adolescents’ psychosocial functioning may be impaired during prolonged parental disease with poor prognosis. Therefore, more ...

The purpose of this systematic review was to examine the effect of music on postoperative pain. A search for scientific articles was conducted using online databases. Included were quantitative studies published from 1998 through 2007 that considered the effect of music interventions on posto...

The objective of this review is to evaluate the evidence regarding the use of music as an adjuvant therapy for pain control in hospitalized adults. The search terms music, music therapy, pain, adults, inpatient, and hospitalized were used to search the Cochrane Library, Cinahl, Medline, Natur...

Background Music is a non-invasive, safe, and inexpensive intervention that can be delivered easily and successfully. We did a systematic review and meta-analysis to assess whether music improves recovery after surgical procedures. Methods We included randomised controlled trials (RCTs) of adu...

Music may have a role in reducing anxiety related to cardiac catheterization procedures. This comprehensive systematic review and meta-analysis of randomized clinical trials sought to evaluate the extent to which music reduce anxiety in patients undergoing cardiac catheterization. MEDLINE, ...

The beneficial influence of listening to music on anxiety states has often been discussed. However, the empirical evidence and theoretical mechanisms underlying these effects remain controversial. The aim of this study is to conduct a meta-analysis of randomized controlled trials on the effec...

Objective.—The aim of this study was to conduct a systematic review of the efficacy of music therapy (MT) on pain and anxiety in children undergoing clinical procedures. Methods.—We searched 16 electronic databases of published and unpublished studies, subject bibliographies, reference lists ...

Aim: This study aimed to evaluate the efficacy of music therapy for reducing the anxiety and pain of patients who underwent the biopsy. Background: Music can affect human anxiety and pain by triggering a neuroendocrine effect. Clinical study results indicated that music can influence the anx...

Background Individuals with coronary heart disease (CHD) often suffer from severe distress due to diagnosis, hospitalization, surgical procedures, uncertainty of outcome, fear of dying, doubts about progress in recovery, helplessness and loss of control. Such adverse effects put the cardiac pa...

There is increasing interest in exploring the benefits of music in rehabilitation settings. In the field of speech-language pathology, an ultimate goal for individuals with communication disorders is to foster participation across multiple contexts. The goal of this systematic review was to...