OBJETIVE: To study the influence of musicotherapy in reduction of fatigue related to cancer in patients with breast's or gynecology's cancer, during the radiotherapy treatment.
METHODS: This is a randomized controled study (Control Group - CG e musicotherapy Group - MTG) wich values fatigue, life's quality, anxiety, depression by using evaluative instruments Functional Assessment of Cancer Therapy: Fatigue (FACT-F), Beck Depression Inventory (BDI), Beck Anxiety Inventory (BAI) in three different moments (during first week of radiotherapy, in the intermediate phase's week and during the last week of radiotherapy) for patients of both groups. Women allocated in MTG, in addition to the scales described above, answered the musicotherapy Questionary (MQ), and the Subjective Impression of the Subject's Questionary in last meeting. Musicotherapy sessions were individual and lasted an average of 40 minutes. Music therapeutic techniques used were Musical Audition (MA) and Therapeutic Musical Audition (TMA).
Study Type
INTERVENTIONAL
Allocation
RANDOMIZED
Purpose
SUPPORTIVE_CARE
Masking
SINGLE
Enrollment
164
Music therapy arm: Intervention with 10 sections of music therapy will be performed, twice a week, during 45 days
Goias Anticancer Association
Goiânia, Goiás, Brazil
Hospital Araujo Jorge, Associacao de Combate ao Cancer em Goias
Goiânia, Goiás, Brazil
Assess the influence of musicotherapy in the reduction of fatigue
To study the influence of musicotherapy in reduction of fatigue related to cancer in patients with breast or gynecological cancer, during the radiotherapy treatment.
Time frame: 45 days
Assess the reduction of depression
To compare the levels of depression of patients with breast and gynecological cancer on radiotherapy, between the musicotherapy and the control group.
Time frame: 45 days
Asses the reduction of anxiety
To compare the levels of anxiety of patients with breast and gynecological cancer on radiotherapy, between the musicotherapy and the control group.
Time frame: 45 days
Assess the quality of life
To compare the levels of quality of life of patients with breast and gynecological cancer on radiotherapy, between the musicotherapy and the control group.
Time frame: 45 days
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