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Roadmap to Wellness: Exploring Live Customized Music at the Bedside for Hospitalized Children

Overview of attention for article published in Frontiers in oncology, February 2018
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Title
Roadmap to Wellness: Exploring Live Customized Music at the Bedside for Hospitalized Children
Published in
Frontiers in oncology, February 2018
DOI 10.3389/fonc.2018.00021
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Authors

R. Serene Perkins, Maura Boyce, Megan C. Byrtek, Regina C. Ellis, Cindy Hill, Paul S. Fitzpatrick, Shaban Demirel

Abstract

Randomized trials on clinical outcomes of music are conflicting, with few performed in the postoperative pediatric population. We aimed to determine if there was a benefit of a live, customized bedside music delivery program (MyMusicRx®) for children hospitalized after pediatric surgery. We present our perspective on the utility of music medicine, review others' work in this area, and discuss future directions. All admitted postsurgical patients aged between 5 and 18 years were considered. One live, customized music session was delivered by a MyMusicRx®music specialist to intervention participants, and compared with matched controls who did not receive music intervention. Pain, cumulative analgesia dosage, and vital signs within 12 h after unit arrival were compared between groups. Thirty-two participants (16 intervention, 16 controls; 8:8 females:males per group) were enrolled. No differences in age, surgery length, or duration of music intervention were found between groups. No differences in pain scores (p = 0.73), heart rate (p = 0.82), respirations (p = 84), narcotic (p = 0.92) or non-narcotic medication usage (p = 0.88, 0.86, 0.95; ibuprofen, acetaminophen, and ketorolac, respectively), or time to first narcotic dose (p = 0.64) were found. A single music intervention in the acute postoperative period did not appear to be adequate to augment traditional methods of pain and hemodynamic control. Prior studies have similar outcome measures but conflicting results. We did not evaluate psychological well-being, patient engagement, or family perception in this pilot study. Future directions include developing and validating a tool that explores the observable impact of music medicine on children's emotions and behaviors.

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Country Count As %
Unknown 65 100%

Demographic breakdown

Readers by professional status Count As %
Student > Doctoral Student 9 14%
Student > Master 8 12%
Student > Ph. D. Student 7 11%
Researcher 5 8%
Student > Bachelor 4 6%
Other 7 11%
Unknown 25 38%
Readers by discipline Count As %
Psychology 12 18%
Nursing and Health Professions 8 12%
Medicine and Dentistry 7 11%
Pharmacology, Toxicology and Pharmaceutical Science 2 3%
Arts and Humanities 2 3%
Other 6 9%
Unknown 28 43%
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This research output has an Altmetric Attention Score of 37. This is our high-level measure of the quality and quantity of online attention that it has received. This Attention Score, as well as the ranking and number of research outputs shown below, was calculated when the research output was last mentioned on 06 February 2019.
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#1,106,210
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Outputs from Frontiers in oncology
#183
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#26,179
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Outputs of similar age from Frontiers in oncology
#4
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