PMC:1142188 / 16410-18140 JSONTXT

{"target":"https://pubannotation.org/docs/sourcedb/PMC/sourceid/1142188","sourcedb":"PMC","sourceid":"1142188","source_url":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/1142188","text":"In a randomized clinical trial, Hilliard (8) studied the effects of cognitive-behavioral music therapy on quality of life, length of life and time of death in relation to last visit, by discipline, for people diagnosed with terminal cancer who were receiving hospice care services. Participants (n = 80 adults) were randomly assigned to one of two conditions: (i) control (routine hospice care services only) or (ii) experimental (routine hospice care services and music therapy). The study controlled for place of residence in that all participants resided in their homes, and conditions were matched by age and sex such that each condition included an equal number of men and women as well as of those over and under age 65 years. Controlling for these variables was important since quality-of-life studies in end-of-life care indicate a need to control for residence, the music therapy literature indicates a need to control for sex and the pain literature indicates a need to control for age. The Hospice Quality-of-Life Index–Revised (HQOLI), a 29-question self-report tool, was used to measure quality of life. Participants in the control condition completed the HQOLI following the social work sessions, and those in the experimental condition completed it following the music therapy sessions. Because music therapists often report qualitatively that music assists the dying in releasing life, this study evaluated the time of death of each participant in the experimental condition in relation to the last visit, by hospice discipline (social worker, nurse and music therapist). Length of life was the last dependent variable in the study, and length of life and time of death were measured using medical record analysis.","tracks":[]}