Trial reportPsycho-oncology2024
Music Therapy for Pain Management for People With Advanced Cancer: A Randomized Controlled Trial.
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Mechanisms of Music Therapy to Palliate Pain in Patients With Advanced Cancer
Who cites it
12 citing papers in PubMed, 2 syntheses or guidelines pooled it.
- Creative Arts Therapy for Anxiety, Depression, and Quality of Life in Cancer Patients: A Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis of Randomized Controlled Trials.Psycho-oncology · 2026Pooled it
- A dual-database bibliometric analysis of music-based interventions and pain from 2004 to 2024.Frontiers in medicine · 2025Pooled it
- Refining a hybrid music therapy intervention for chronic obstructive pulmonary disease and heart failure: a single arm pilot study.BMC complementary medicine and therapies · 2025Trial
- The Hypoalgesic Effects of Pleasant Music Are Not Fully Explained by Distraction.European journal of pain (London, England) · 2026Article
- A scoping review of music-based pain treatment mechanism research.Pain reports · 2026Review
- Longitudinal effects of inpatient music therapy dosage on pain intensity and opioid utilization among patients with hematologic or oncologic conditions: a retrospective cohort study.Supportive care in cancer : official journal of the Multinational Association of Supportive Care in Cancer · 2026Article
- Multimodal Rehabilitation for Advanced Cancer Pain: a Narrative Review of Emerging Nonpharmacological Strategies.Current oncology reports · 2026Review
- Acoustic stimulation in pain management: neurobiological mechanisms and clinical applications-a narrative review.Frontiers in neuroscience · 2026Review
- Impact of sociodemographic, clinical, and intervention characteristics on pain intensity within a single music therapy session.The journal of pain · 2025Article
- Understanding Cancer-Related Pain: Pathophysiology, Classification, and Treatment Modalities.Cureus · 2025Review
- Effect of Music Therapy on Postoperative Pain Management in Patients with Oral Cancer: A Retrospective Study.Noise & healthArticle
- Beyond Distraction: Music Therapy for Chronic Pain Management in People with Advanced Cancer.Integrative cancer therapiesArticle
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Abstract
objectiveTo improve mechanistic understanding, this randomized controlled trial examined anxiety, mood, emotional support, and pain-related self-efficacy as mediators of music therapy for pain management in people with advanced cancer.
methodsPeople with advanced cancer who had chronic pain were randomized (1:1) to 6 weekly individual music therapy or social attention control sessions. We measured mediators and pain outcomes (pain interference and pain intensity) using self-report measures at baseline, session 4, and post-intervention. We included outcome expectancy/treatment credibility, music reward, adult playfulness, and baseline pain interference and pain intensity as moderators.
resultsParticipants (n = 92) had a mean age of 56 years. Most were female (71.7%), white (47.8%) or Black (39.1%), and had stage IV cancer (75%). Self-efficacy was found to be a significant mediator of music therapy for pain intensity (indirect effect ab = 0.79, 95% CI 0.01-1.82) and pain interference (indirect effect ab = 1.16, 95% CI 0.02-2.51), while anxiety, mood, and emotional support were not. The mediating effect of pain-related self-efficacy was significantly moderated by baseline pain interference but not by the other moderators.
conclusionsThe findings suggest that the impact of music therapy on chronic pain is mediated by self-efficacy. This knowledge can help optimize music therapy interventions for chronic pain management for people with advanced cancer by capitalizing on teaching music-based self-management strategies.
trial registrationClinicalTrials.gov identifier: NCT03432247.
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