EEG-Based Analysis of the Emotional Effect of Music Therapy on Palliative Care Cancer Patients

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• dc.contributor.author Ramírez, Rafael,1966-
• dc.contributor.author Planas Domingo, Josep
• dc.contributor.author Escudé, Nuria
• dc.contributor.author Mercadé, Jordi
• dc.contributor.author Farriols, Cristina
• dc.date.accessioned 2018-11-16T09:27:24Z
• dc.date.available 2018-11-16T09:27:24Z
• dc.date.issued 2018
• dc.description.abstract Music is known to have the power to induce strong emotions. The present study assessed, based on Electroencephalography (EEG) data, the emotional response of terminally ill cancer patients to a music therapy intervention in a randomized controlled trial. A sample of 40 participants from the palliative care unit in the Hospital del Mar in Barcelona was randomly assigned to two groups of 20. The first group [experimental group (EG)] participated in a session of music therapy (MT), and the second group [control group (CG)] was provided with company. Based on our previous work on EEG-based emotion detection, instantaneous emotional indicators in the form of a coordinate in the arousal-valence plane were extracted from the participants' EEG data. The emotional indicators were analyzed in order to quantify (1) the overall emotional effect of MT on the patients compared to controls, and (2) the relative effect of the different MT techniques applied during each session. During each MT session, five conditions were considered: I (initial patient's state before MT starts), C1 (passive listening), C2 (active listening), R (relaxation), and F (final patient's state). EEG data analysis showed a significant increase in valence (p = 0.0004) and arousal (p = 0.003) between I and F in the EG. No significant changes were found in the CG. This results can be interpreted as a positive emotional effect of MT in advanced cancer patients. In addition, according to pre- and post-intervention questionnaire responses, participants in the EG also showed a significant decrease in tiredness, anxiety and breathing difficulties, as well as an increase in levels of well-being. No equivalent changes were observed in the CG.
• dc.description.sponsorship This work was partly sponsored by Fundación Memora, the Spanish TIN project TIMUL (TIN2013-48152-C2-2-R), and the European Union Horizon 2020 research and innovation program under grant agreement No. 688269 (TELMI project).
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• dc.identifier.citation Ramirez R, Planas J, Escude N, Mercade J, Farriols C. EEG-Based Analysis of the Emotional Effect of Music Therapy on PalliativeCare Cancer Patients. Front Psychol. 2018 Mar 2;9:254. DOI: 10.3389/fpsyg.2018.00254
• dc.identifier.doi http://dx.doi.org/10.3389/fpsyg.2018.00254
• dc.identifier.issn 1664-1078
• dc.identifier.uri http://hdl.handle.net/10230/35775
• dc.language.iso eng
• dc.publisher Frontiers
• dc.relation.ispartof Frontiers in Psychology. 2018 Mar 2;9:254
• dc.relation.projectID info:eu-repo/grantAgreement/EC/H2020/688269
• dc.relation.projectID info:eu-repo/grantAgreement/ES/1PE/TIN2013-48152-C2-2-R
• dc.rights Copyright © 2018 Ramirez, Planas, Escude, Mercade and Farriols. This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (CC BY). The use, distribution or reproduction in other forums is permitted, provided the original author(s) and the copyright owner are credited and that the original publication in this journal is cited, in accordance with accepted academic practice. No use, distribution or reproduction is permitted which does not comply with these terms.
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• dc.rights.uri https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/
• dc.subject.keyword EEG
• dc.subject.keyword Cancer
• dc.subject.keyword Emotion regulation
• dc.subject.keyword Music therapy
• dc.subject.keyword Palliative care
• dc.subject.other Musicoteràpia
• dc.subject.other Malalts terminals -- Cura
• dc.subject.other Càncer
• dc.title EEG-Based Analysis of the Emotional Effect of Music Therapy on Palliative Care Cancer Patients
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