Music Therapy in Pediatric Asthma: A Short Review

Abstract

Dandan Zhang,1– 3,* Xiaoxuan Yu,4,* Qian Lin,1,3 Ying Xia,2 Guyi Wang,2 Jianhua Zhang,3 Yanyi Yang2 1Office of Pediatrics, Pediatric College, Shanghai Jiaotong University School of Medicine, Shanghai, People’s Republic of China; 2Department of Music Education, Shanghai Conservatory of Music, Shanghai, People’s Republic of China; 3Shanghai Xinhua Hospital, Shanghai Jiao Tong University School of Medicine, Shanghai, People’s Republic of China; 4College of Basic Medical Sciences, Shanghai Jiaotong University School of Medicine, Shanghai, People’s Republic of China*These authors contributed equally to this workCorrespondence: Yanyi Yang; Jianhua Zhang, Email [email protected]; [email protected]: Music therapy (MT) is a common modality that performs a complementary and integrative role along with standard treatments for many pediatric diseases. This article briefly reviewed the effects of MT on children aged 5– 11 years old and adolescents with asthma from previous studies, specified its functional target towards asthma symptoms, and sorted out the design and investigation of selected research. Medline/PubMed, Embase, SportDis-cus, Cochrane Library, Teacher Reference Centre, Web of Science, Academic Search Complete, PsycARTICLES, and Scopus were queried for experimental and observational studies published between 1990 and 2021. Then, researchers showed that MT lessened patients’ asthma symptoms, improved medication compliance, pulmonary function, and quality of life, and helped children and their parents manage anxiety and depression. This article may serve as a reference for clinical research for pediatric asthma therapies and lay the foundation for future research on MT and its clinical practice.Keywords: pediatric asthma, music therapy, breath exercise, sing and play the wind instruments

Keywords

• pediatric asthma
• music therapy
• breath exercise
• sing and play the wind instruments.