Listening to music reduces stress and improves mood during chemotherapy

A study published by Wayne State University School of Medicine and Barbara Ann Karmanos Cancer Institute researchers and physicians on reduction of stress and improved mood during chemotherapy.

Music medicine is a low-touch, low-risk and cost-effective way to manage patients’ psychological wellbeing in the often stressful context of a cancer infusion clinic. There were significant differences in change in positive and negative mood and distress (although not pain) from pre- to post-intervention between the music and control groups. Participants who were married or widowed and those receiving disability income reported greater benefit outcomes after listening to music. said Felicity Harper, Ph.D., associate professor of Oncology the School of Medicine and KCI, and lead author of the study.