Music Therapy, Breast Cancer, Anxiety, Fatigue Clinical Trial
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Department of Nursing, Chang Gang Memorial Hospital
Comprehensive inpatient rehabilitation for breast cancer consist of interdisciplinary team care but few researchers investigate the efficacy of music therapy, which have shown some benefits in breast cancer rehabilitation. According to previous research, music therapy has been proposed to improve quality of life, as well as depression and stress of breast cancer patients. However, to the best of our knowledge, only few studies have investigated the impact of music therapy among health-related parameter of patient with breast cancer. Considering the fact that music therapy had merely no adverse events, we assume music therapy is an optimal add-on therapy for patient with breast cancer. Therefore, we plan to conduct a study to evaluate the impact of music therapy on anxiety, and fatigue on patients with breast cancer.
Patients and Method:
We designed this study as an assessor blinded, randomized, controlled, parallel group trial.
The participants will be recruited from general surgery unit of tertiary referral hospital in
Southern Taiwan. Inclusion criteria will be as follows: (1) patients with first-ever breast
cancer between 20~80 years old (1 to 6 months post- surgery) (2) able to follow basic orders
(verbal or gesture) and tolerated music therapy by 1 hour. Individuals will be excluded from
the study if they (1) are unable to cooperate with music therapy, (2) undergoing
psychotherapeutic treatment during the study period, using antidepressants during the study
period, (3) are significantly hearing impaired, not agree to sign the informed consent, or do
not agree further evaluation, and (4) pregnant women. Randomization in a 1:1 ratio will be
performed with computer-generated randomization list. All the included patients will be
categorized into two groups: music therapy (MT) group and control group. Both groups will
receive comprehensive in-patient education program for 12consecutive weeks, but the MT group
will receive additional music therapy in the 12 consecutive weeks. The participants in MT
group will receive neurologic music therapy 1 day per week for 1 hour with total 4 hours in 4
consecutive weeks after initial enrollment. The primary outcome is anxiety and fatigue. The
Brief Fatigue Inventory-Taiwan (BFI-T) State anxiety inventory (STAI) and WHOQOL until 12
weeks after randomization. All health-related parameters will be evaluation prior to
intervention and after intervention.
Aim of the study:
The aim of the study is to explore the impact of music therapy on anxiety and fatigue among
patients with breast cancer. We aim to investigate whether music therapy is an optimal add-on
therapeutic model for patients with breast cancer.
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