Abstract
OBJECTIVE The purpose of this research was to explore practitioners’ awareness of Complementary and Alternative Medicine (CAM), broadly, and Music Therapy (MT) activity, specifically, within their healthcare institutions. The goal of this was to better evaluate their level of knowledge and understand their recommending practices of these modalities within their roles as interdisciplinary healthcare team (IDHT) members in those institutions for optimization of patient care decision-making. DESIGN A quantitative, descriptive, exploratory and cross-sectional research design was used to measure practitioners’ awareness of CAM and MT in their healthcare institution utilizing a principal investigator-created valid and reliable tool entitled the “Global Complementary/Alternative and Music Therapy Assessment (GCAMTA). SETTING/LOCATION Data were collected electronically using various social media platforms and from several professional healthcare associations. SUBJECTS A sample of 499 healthcare practitioners participated. RESULTS Solo/group practitioners of small, private practices revealed high awareness (82-94%) of institutional CAM being provided and recommended as opposed to practitioners in larger institutions. Almost half of practitioners (48%) in larger hospital institutions are unaware if CAM is being recommended to patients. Although practitioners have positive or neutral overall impressions of MT, 83% of practitioners do not recommend MT in their current practice. Results of the Chi-Square Analysis were significant; practitioners in smaller, private practices are more aware of their institutional CAM as opposed to practitioners in larger hospital settings (p
Highlights
OverviewThere is a paradigm shift occurring in healthcare today – there is a clear movement away from the solo practitioner into collaborative interdisciplinary healthcare team (IDHT) approaches focused around cost-effective and efficient patient care and outcomes
Cooperative efforts among both Complementary and Alternative Medicine (CAM) and allopathic practitioners to provide a holistic approach to patient care is essential to improve patient outcomes
Education of CAM in the classroom and continuing educational workshops in institutions can minimize the disconnect of lack of awareness/understanding of specific modalities of CAM such as Music Therapy (MT)
Summary
OverviewThere is a paradigm shift occurring in healthcare today – there is a clear movement away from the solo practitioner into collaborative interdisciplinary healthcare team (IDHT) approaches focused around cost-effective and efficient patient care and outcomes. IDHTs, often referred to as interprofessional healthcare teams, are a type of integrated health care approach characterized by a high degree of collaboration and communication among health professionals from various professional fields to achieve common goals (APA, 2010; Mahdizadeh, Heydari, & Moonaghi, 2015) While this transformative change is occurring in healthcare on a gross scale, there is another transformation that is occurring that may not be obvious to allopathically trained practitioners: an institution-wide incorporation and implementation of Complementary and Alternative Medicine (CAM) services, such as Music Therapy (MT), to achieve patient goals as part of an IDHT approach. One type of CAM, Music Therapy (MT), has received recent attention and is defined as the clinical and evidence-based use of music interventions to accomplish individualized goals within a therapeutic relationship (AMTA, 2020) This implementation of these services or prevalent “revolution” positively impacts all practitioners, requiring their understanding of social capital, behavioral economics and ability to work cohesively in IDHTs to achieve better outcomes and efficiencies (Lee & Cosgrove, 2014)
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