The effectiveness of active music therapy on social problems in children with leukemia

Abstract

Childhood malignancies could affect the children’s psychological life and cause problems in socialization. There are many researches that illustrate the effect of music therapy in different aspects of children’s life such as isolation and etc, there is no report about the effect of Iranian music. The aim of this research was to examine the effect of active music therapy with Iranian rhythms on reducing social problems in 5 children with cancer while accomplished an as a case study project in semi- experimental design as a time series design Thus we selected 5 children among 40 children who had preliminary conditions of participating in this study and their parent filled in the CBCL (Minaii,1390). These 5 children were high in subscale social problems. They participated in 8 treatments session and administrated the CBCL after forth session and last session as a post tests. Data were analyzed with repeated measure and results were extracted for all subscales. In summary results(sig 0.005) showed that using the Iranian rhythms in active music therapy can reduce the social problems in children with cancer.

Keywords

• childhood malignancies
• social problems
• active music therapy
• iranian rhythms
• social relations
• repeated measure.