Impact of Music Therapy on Pain in Patients Treated for Advanced Cancer

Impact of Music Therapy on Pain in Patients Treated for Advanced Cancer

The aim of this study is to assess the impact of music therapy on the pain of patients cared at the Montpellier Cancer Institute (ICM) for advanced cancer in a palliative situation and requiring full hospitalization or on an outpatient basis.

Music therapy is a care practice that falls within the field of support, help and accompaniment therapies. Sound, musical and music are the means used to support, maintain or improve a person's physical and mental health.

The patients involved in the study are patients cared at the ICM for advanced cancer in a palliative situation and requiring full hospitalization or on an outpatient basis.

The aim is to assess the impact of music therapy on the pain of these patients. The patient is proposed to participate in a music therapy session. Before this session, the music therapist will assess the pain and the presence of symptoms with the patient.

Following this exchange, she will define the device best suited to his expectations and his needs and will propose his a relaxation session induced by music.

After the session the music therapist will assess with the patient the pain and the presence of symptoms.

The patient's feelings and satisfaction about this music therapy session as well as his possible wish to participate in another session will also be evaluated.

Inclusion Criteria:

• Male/female over 18 years old
• Patient cared for at the ICM for advanced cancer followed by the Mobile Palliative and/or Pain Care Team
• Patient with pain score >= 3 (cancer related)
• Patient who accepts a music therapy session
• Patient having expressed his oral non-opposition
• Patient able to communicate
• Patient affiliated to the French Social Security System.

Exclusion Criteria:

• Patient with uncorrected hearing loss to normal
• Patient under guardianship, curatorship or safeguard of justice