Interventions among Pregnant Women in the Field of Music Therapy: A Systematic Review.

Bruna Mayumi Omori Shimada,Vanessa Oliveira Silva,Gislaine Cristina Vagetti,Magda Da Silva Oliveira Menezes Dos Santos Santos,Mayara Alvares Cabral

doi:10.1055/s-0041-1731924

Abstract

To investigate in the literature the studies on the benefits of music therapy interventions among pregnant women in the prenatal, delivery and postpartum periods. The search for articles was carried out in the following electronic databases: VHL, LILACS, SciELO, Portal CAPES, PsycINFO, ERIC, PubMed/Medline, and journals specialized in this field: Revista Brasileira de Musicoterapia ("Brazilian Journal of Music Therapy") and Voices. Descriptors in Portuguese (musicoterapia, gravidez, gestantes, revisão), English (music therapy, pregnancy, pregnant women, review) and Spanish (musicoterapia, embarazo, mujeres embarazadas, revisión) were used. The search was delimited between January 2009 and June 2019. The process of selection and evaluation of the articles was performed through peer review. The following data were extracted: article title, year of publication, journal, author(s), database, country and date of collection, purpose of the study, sample size, type of care, intervention, instruments used, results, and conclusion. The data were organized in chronological order based on the year of publication of the study. In total, 146 articles were identified, and only 23 studies were included in this systematic review. The articles found indicate among their results relaxation, decreased levels of anxiety, psychosocial stress and depression, decreased pain, increase in the maternal bond, improvement in the quality of sleep, control of the fetal heart rate and maternal blood pressure, and decreased intake of drugs in the postoperative period. Music therapy during the prenatal, delivery and postpartum periods can provide benefits to pregnant women and newborns, thus justifying its importance in this field.

Highlights

Pregnancy is a period characterized by physical, hormonal and emotional changes.[1]
Pregnant women are especially affected by stress during pregnancy, childbirth and the postpartum period
According to the Oxford Center for Evidence-Based Medicine (OCEBM),[11] the typology of the systematic review is classified as level 1 out of 5 possible levels in the representation of evidence, as it makes it possible to establish a panorama on the studied topic

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Introduction

Pregnancy is a period characterized by physical, hormonal and emotional changes.[1]. The birth marks a new phase in the life of the woman, the puerperium, which ends when the woman’s body returns to the stage previous to pregnancy.[2]Pregnant women are especially affected by stress during pregnancy, childbirth and the postpartum period. Pregnancy is a period characterized by physical, hormonal and emotional changes.[1] The birth marks a new phase in the life of the woman, the puerperium, which ends when the woman’s body returns to the stage previous to pregnancy.[2]. Music has been a constant target of research regarding its effects on the most diverse groups of patients. The existing data point to its importance in improving the concentration, attention and physical endurance of the patients.[3] And it has been shown to be beneficial in the emotional, intellectual, psychological, physiological and social fields,[4] in addition to having specific beneficial effects regarding depression and normal postpartum pain, anxiety and greater satisfaction in the postpartum period.[5]

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