Live music, the new, safer and more effective pill on the market. A case study with hemodialysis patients in a hospital

Abstract

[EN] Abstract People are more vulnerable to presenting anxiety, depression, nervousness, unfavorable quality of life, when they face situations that can threaten their life. Among these situations we find the disease, medical treatments and surgical interventions as the main ones on the list. When people get sick they endure very big and sudden changes in their lives, income, aggressive treatments, endure physical pain, these changes usually generate an unfavorable mood situation to face the disease, and in most cases worsen the previous clinical situation . Throughout history there has always been an awareness of the positive effects that music produces on people and society. Music is applied in education, in the expression of emotions, and also in the healing of patients and in many other situations. We can say that music and medicine are two closely related disciplines, with music being increasingly used as an adjuvant in different pathologies. The objective of our study was to verify the effect of classical music heard live on patients, in this case kidney patients undergoing hemodialysis (HD), who have listened to live music while receiving treatment at the Manises hospital.