Musicotherapy in the Reduction of Fatigue in Women With Breast or Gynecological Cancer Under Radiotherapy

Universidade Federal de Goias

Status: Completed

Conditions: Breast Cancer; Uterine Cancer; Ovarian Cancer

Treatments: Behavioral: Music therapy

Study type: Interventional

Funder types: Other

Identifiers

NCT01570218

RGM-02

Details and patient eligibility

About

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.

Full description

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).

Enrollment: 164 patients

Sex: All

Ages: 20 to 80 years old

Volunteers: No Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion criteria

• Patients with breast and gynecological cancer with indication for radiotherapy
• Performance status 0,1

Exclusion criteria

• Hemoglobin < 10mg/dl
• Patients in psychotherapy during the study
• Use of antidepressants
• Patients presenting more than one cancer type

Trial design

Primary purpose: Supportive Care

Allocation: Randomized

Interventional model: Parallel Assignment

Masking: Single Blind

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164 participants in 2 patient groups

Music therapy

Experimental group

Description:

Music therapy arm: Intervention with 10 sections of music therapy will be performed, twice a week, during 45 days.

Treatment:

Behavioral: Music therapy

Control

No Intervention group