INFAD (Nov 2019)
Music therapy as an effective non-pharmacological intervention
Abstract
Music therapy is the use of music and all kinds of musical experiences to restore, maintain and / or improve the physical and psychological health of people. Music therapy is a therapy that supports pharmacological therapy and is part of one of the complementary therapies recommended by the World Health Organization to nurses as one of the strategies to achieve the goal of “Health for all” in the year 2000 . The intervention programs are specifically designed to meet the individual needs of people and help them in achieving different therapeutic objectives, which can be directed to the following dimensions: physical, cognitive, socio-emotional and / or spiritual. The objective of this review is to evaluate the available evidence on the beneficial effects of the application of music as a nurse intervention. A systematic review has been carried out in the main databases, Medlin, Cochrane Plus, Scielo, Cuiden, Scopus, google scholar, tripdatabase. 48 studies were found using different combinations of the descriptors. Following the inclusion and exclusion criteria, after a first selection of reading the title and summary, 35 articles were selected. 3 articles of referential search are added. After reading the full article we are left with 7 articles that are the reason for our review, the 14 articles are 10 Systematic Reviews and 4 Randomized Clinical Trials, in the absence of Meta-analysis. After the detailed analysis of the bibliography, we can conclude that a good use of music produces positive effects in patients, this being an economic and complementary intervention of pharmacology. Positive effects occur in hospitalized patients, with cancer, with depression and in patients undergoing invasive processes
Keywords
