Music therapy-induced changes in salivary cortisol level are predictive of cardiovascular mortality in patients under maintenance hemodialysis

Music therapy has been applied in hemodialysis (HD) patients for relieving mental stress. Whether the stress-relieving effect by music therapy is predictive of clinical outcome in HD patients is still unclear. We recruited a convenience sample of 99 patients on maintenance HD and randomly assigned t...

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Published in:Therapeutics and clinical risk management 2017-01, Vol.13, p.263-272
Main Authors: Hou, Yi-Chou, Lin, Yen-Ju, Lu, Kuo-Cheng, Chiang, Han-Sun, Chang, Chia-Chi, Yang, Li-King
Format: Article
Language:English
Subjects:
Analysis
Cardiovascular disease
Cardiovascular diseases
Chronic kidney failure
Health aspects
Hemodialysis
Hormones
Hospitals
Hydrocortisone
Kidney diseases
maintenance hemodialysis
Medicine
Metabolism
Mortality
Music therapy
Nephrology
Original Research
Patients
Peritoneal dialysis
Physiology
Proteins
salivary cortisol
Stress
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Summary:Music therapy has been applied in hemodialysis (HD) patients for relieving mental stress. Whether the stress-relieving effect by music therapy is predictive of clinical outcome in HD patients is still unclear. We recruited a convenience sample of 99 patients on maintenance HD and randomly assigned them to the experimental (n=49) or control (n=50) group. The experimental group received relaxing music therapy for 1 week, whereas the control group received no music therapy. In the experimental group, we compared cardiovascular mortality in the patients with and without cortisol changes. The salivary cortisol level was lowered after 1 week of music therapy in the experimental group (-2.41±3.08 vs 1.66±2.11 pg/mL,
ISSN:1176-6336
1178-203X
1178-203X
DOI:10.2147/TCRM.S127555