Published online Mar 27, 2023. doi: 10.4240/wjgs.v15.i3.471
Peer-review started: January 11, 2023
First decision: January 30, 2023
Revised: February 6, 2023
Accepted: February 27, 2023
Article in press: February 27, 2023
Published online: March 27, 2023
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Music therapy can reduce anxiety symptoms, avoid the response to the human body under various stress conditions through psychological adjustment, and has a positive effect on improving the adverse reactions of chemotherapy. Music therapy has been used in treating primary cancers such as lung cancer and breast cancer and plays a huge role in relieving anxiety before surgery and reducing the dosage of anesthetics.
Music therapy plays a role in improving the negative emotions of cancer patients. However, whether it could reduce nausea and vomiting caused by chemotherapy still remains to be explored.
To explore whether music therapy has a positive impact on the improvement of nausea and vomiting symptoms in patients with gastrointestinal cancer during chemotherapy.
A few relevant articles of this subject have been searched from the public databases. The data of the outcome indicators have been extracted from the articles. A meta-analysis has been performed for the pooling results.
Music therapy could reduce the nausea and vomiting symptom score of patients after chemotherapy, also it could reduce the incidence of grade I and above nausea or vomiting in patients after chemotherapy.
Music therapy is a good adjuvant therapy for improving the adverse reactions of chemotherapy.
Indicators for chemotherapy-induced nausea and vomiting have been determined and a meta-analysis has been performed for the pooling results of the indicators. The evidence was withdrawn from the process.