Nursing Department, Health Sciences Faculty, University of Alicante, Alicante, Spain.
Music and Music Therapy Department, N3 Music Centre, Alicante, Spain.
Glob Health Action. 2022 Dec 31;15(1):2116774. doi: 10.1080/16549716.2022.2116774.
Music therapy is an emerging and useful methodology to improve the quality of life of children and adolescents with cancer.
The objective of this scoping review was to examine the available literature and offer an analysis of the relevance of music therapy in paediatric oncology. We considered the effects of music therapy on children and adolescents with cancer as well as the perception of this population, their families, music therapists, and health professionals regarding the music therapy sessions conducted. Finally, we analysed the characteristics of the distinct types of music therapy interventions reported in the literature.
In this review, we applied the methodology proposed by Arksey and O'Malley. After performing a comprehensive academic literature database search, 522 articles were identified of which, 27 met the inclusion criteria.
The results shed light on the use of music therapy as a means to facilitate self-esteem, to improve the physical, emotional, and cognitive aspects related to disease and, to a lesser extent, alleviate their physiological symptoms. Both children and adolescents with cancer were represented in the academic literature. The most prevalent findings described in these studies were the benefits of music therapy in terms of improved psychological well-being and social relationships in this population.
Music therapy interventions are generally well received, not only by children and adolescents with cancer, but also by their families, music therapists, and health professionals. Nevertheless, several gaps were identified in some of the studies we considered, including a lack of specificity regarding the results obtained or music therapy intervention methods used.
音乐疗法是一种新兴且有效的方法，可以提高癌症患儿和青少年的生活质量。
本次范围综述的目的是检查现有文献，并分析音乐疗法在儿科肿瘤学中的相关性。我们考虑了音乐疗法对癌症患儿和青少年的影响，以及该人群、他们的家人、音乐治疗师和卫生专业人员对所进行的音乐治疗课程的看法。最后，我们分析了文献中报告的不同类型音乐治疗干预措施的特征。
在本次综述中，我们应用了 Arksey 和 O'Malley 提出的方法。在对全面的学术文献数据库进行搜索后，确定了 522 篇文章，其中 27 篇符合纳入标准。
结果揭示了音乐疗法作为一种促进自尊、改善与疾病相关的身体、情感和认知方面的手段的使用，在一定程度上缓解了其生理症状。学术文献中既包括癌症患儿，也包括青少年。这些研究中最常见的发现是音乐疗法在改善该人群的心理幸福感和社会关系方面的益处。
音乐治疗干预措施通常受到癌症患儿和青少年及其家人、音乐治疗师和卫生专业人员的欢迎。然而，我们认为的一些研究中存在一些差距，包括对所获得的结果或使用的音乐治疗干预方法缺乏特异性。
