NCT06424587

The Effect of Music Intervention on Anxiety, Fear, and Pain in Pediatric Patients Receiving Intrathecal Chemotherapy

• Status: Completed
• Phase: N/A
• Study type: Interventional
• Enrollment: 50 (actual)
• Sponsor: Ondokuz Mayıs University · Academic / Other
• Sex: All
• Age: 6 Years – 12 Years
• Healthy volunteers: Not accepted

Summary

Intrathecal chemotherapy is often used to prevent the spread of cancer to the central nervous system in pediatric patients and is one of the most invasive procedures. It is believed that the way it is administered and the complications experienced after treatment negatively affect the comfort of the pediatric patient, leading them to refuse the treatment.

Detailed description

Receiving sedation is one of the pharmacological procedures for intrathecal chemotherapy which creates a particularly difficult situation for the child. However, since pharmacological methods increase the cost and cause toxicity in children, in recent years, the symptoms that occur in cancer treatment have been tried to be controlled with non-pharmacological methods. Music intervention facilitates a sense of control in patients and provides mental distraction, emotional smoothness, and relaxation, which have been found to have pain relief effects.

Conditions

• Nurse's Role

Interventions

Type	Name	Description
BEHAVIORAL	Music intervention	: In addition to the routine practice of the clinic, the pediatric patients in this group listened to music through headphones for 20 minutes just before the procedure to reduce the child's anxiety and fear. The therapeutic effect of music was used. Before the study, children between the ages of 6 and 12 who were inpatients at the clinic were asked what music they most liked to listen to, what kind of music they liked, and what their favorite artists and songs were. The music was selected based on the children's answers. In addition, the researcher added children's songs by a musician named Banu Kanıbelli

Timeline

• Start date: 2023-01-01
• Primary completion: 2023-12-01
• Completion: 2023-12-30
• First posted: 2024-05-22
• Last updated: 2025-03-20

Locations

1 site across 1 country: Turkey (Türkiye)