Music therapy in an integrated pediatric palliative care program.
National experts have recommended that children with life-limiting illnesses receive integrated palliative and medical care. These programs offer a variety of services, including music therapy. Using survey data from parents whose were enrolled in Florida's Partners in Care: Together for Kids (PIC:TFK) program, this study investigates parents' experiences with music therapy. About 44% of children with life-limiting illnesses and 17% of their siblings used music therapy. For children who used music therapy, multivariate results suggest that their parents were 23 times as likely to report satisfaction with the overall PIC:TFK program (P < .05) versus parents whose children did not use music therapy. Pediatric palliative care programs should include music therapy, although recruiting licensed music therapists may be challenging.
Knapp
Caprice
C
Departments of Epidemiology and Health Policy Research, University of Florida, Gainesville, FL, USA. cak@ichp.ufl.edu
Madden
Vanessa
V
Wang
Hua
H
Curtis
Charlotte
C
Sloyer
Phyllis
P
Shenkman
Elizabeth
E
D002648:Child; D002675:Child, Preschool; D003258:Consumer Behavior; D005260:Female; D005431:Florida; D006801:Humans; D007223:Infant; D008297:Male; D015999:Multivariate Analysis; D009147:Music Therapy; D010166:Palliative Care / Q000379:methods*; D010290:Parents; D035781:Siblings; D000078329:Workforce