Rabinowitch Tal-Chen, Dassa Ayelet, Sadot Aya Shwed, Trincher Avigal
The school of Creative Arts Therapies, University of Haifa, Israel.
Department of Music, Bar-Ilan University, Israel.
Arts Psychother. 2023 Feb;82:101998. doi: 10.1016/j.aip.2023.101998. Epub 2023 Jan 25.
Coping with cancer requires both physical and emotional fortitude, and various intervention programs attempt to address these needs. Since the outbreak of the COVID-19 pandemic, many interventions have transitioned from live to online settings. Balance-Space is a music therapy intervention, which includes listening to original composed music, followed by an open discussion. Participants with a cancer diagnosis were randomized to either an online group music listening intervention or an online group meditation intervention. Both activities were followed by a group discussion led by two music therapists. A mixed methods study was employed and included both quantitative measurements of distress, anxiety, and pain and a qualitative analysis of the group discussion in the music intervention group. We found a significant reduction in participants' perceived pain levels following the music intervention when compared to the meditation intervention. This result was supported by qualitative content analysis, which revealed how music evoked physical reactions and affected the participants' experience of pain. There were no significant differences in participants' perceived distress levels and perceived anxiety levels between the two groups. These preliminary results are encouraging and support the need for further exploration of online music therapy interventions as a non-pharmacological treatment for cancer patients.
应对癌症需要身体和情感上的坚韧，各种干预项目试图满足这些需求。自新冠疫情爆发以来，许多干预措施已从线下转向线上。平衡空间是一种音乐疗法干预，包括聆听原创音乐，随后进行开放式讨论。被诊断患有癌症的参与者被随机分为在线团体音乐聆听干预组或在线团体冥想干预组。两项活动之后都有由两名音乐治疗师主持的小组讨论。本研究采用混合方法，包括对痛苦、焦虑和疼痛的定量测量以及对音乐干预组小组讨论的定性分析。我们发现，与冥想干预相比，音乐干预后参与者的疼痛感知水平显著降低。定性内容分析支持了这一结果，该分析揭示了音乐如何引发身体反应并影响参与者的疼痛体验。两组参与者的痛苦感知水平和焦虑感知水平没有显著差异。这些初步结果令人鼓舞，并支持进一步探索将在线音乐疗法干预作为癌症患者非药物治疗方法的必要性。
