title: Perspectives on music therapy in adult cancer care: a hermeneutic study.
abstract: OBJECTIVE
  To explore perspectives on music therapy as a nursing intervention in adult cancer care and to expand and integrate knowledge and understanding about music therapy as an adjunctive intervention in adult cancer nursing care.
  
  
  METHODS
  Published nursing articles.
  
  
  RESULTS
  Medical and nursing journals have reported on research related to music and its effect as a nursing intervention. However, this research often lacks a musical context (i.e., knowledge and understanding from a musical perspective).
  
  
  CONCLUSIONS
  Music therapy is not a consistent concept. Perspectives on the meanings of music therapy vary according to knowledge and scientific orientation. The perspective may influence the character and methodology of the music therapy intervention as well as the understanding of its results.
  
  
  CONCLUSIONS
  To fully develop music therapy as an adjunct intervention in adult cancer care, interdisciplinary cooperation between nurses and music therapists should be supported on clinical and educational levels.
authors: Department of Oncology, Karolinska University Hospital, Stockholm, Sweden. anne.olofsson@karolinska.se
authors: Anne
authors: A
authors: Olofsson
authors: Bjöörn
authors: B
authors: Fossum
mesh_terms: D000328:Adult; D006801:Humans; D009147:Music Therapy; D009369:Neoplasms / Q000451:nursing* / Q000628:therapy*; D015404:Nursing Methodology Research; D009859:Oncology Nursing / Q000379:methods*