Avaliação da qualidade de evidências científicas sobre interveneções musicais na assistência a pacientes com câncer

Abstract

This integrative review aimed to assess the quality of scientific evidence on musical interventions in caring for cancer patients. The search strategy was conducted in July 2013, using descriptors indexed in the Bireme, Cochrane Library, Medline, Embase, Web of Science, CINAHL and Scopus databases. We selected four randomized clinical trials (two of high and two of low methodological quality) and two systematic reviews (both of high methodological quality). The greatest limitations of the clinical trials were in the descriptions of the resources and musical structures used; and of the systematic reviews, in their focus on the methodological designs. Most of the studies had high methodological quality, but the resources and musical structures used were neither described nor discussed, thereby trivializing the therapeutic potential of music and limiting replication of the studies and incorporation of evidence into clinical practice.