While listening to a favorite song is a known mood booster, researchers at Michigan State University have discovered that music-listening interventions also can make medicines more effective.
"Music-listening interventions are like over-the-counter medications," said Jason Kiernan, an assistant professor in the College of Nursing. "You don't need a doctor to prescribe them." While previous research studies have used music-listening interventions as a tool to treat pain and anxiety, Kiernan took a novel approach by studying the effects of music-listening interventions on chemotherapy-induced nausea. "Pain and anxiety are both neurological phenomena and are interpreted in the brain as a state," Kiernan said. "Chemotherapy-induced nausea is not a stomach condition; it is a neurological one."
The small pilot study included 12 patients undergoing chemotherapy treatment who agreed to listen to their favorite music for 30 minutes each time they needed to take their as-needed anti-nausea medication. They repeated the music intervention anytime nausea occurred over the five days beyond their chemotherapy treatment. The patients in the study provided a total of 64 events.
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