'Lansley must listen to nurses on the front line' Music benefit in childhood cancer
Nurse researches studied around 80 patients aged 4–7. Those who participated in ‘active music engagement’ were more likely to laugh, focus on activities and ask questions.
Author Sheri Robb, behavioural oncology researcher at Indiana University’s nursing school, in Indianapolis, said: ‘The study supports the use of music-based activities to help hospitalised paediatric oncology patients. [Children are] in a better mood, more involved, physically more active and are making decisions and choices.’
The study is due to be published next year in the journal Psycho-Oncology.
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