Recitation of quran and music to reduce chemotherapy-induced anxiety among adult patients with cancer: A clinical trial.
Mohammed Baqer Abbas Al-Jubouri, Safad Riyadh Isam, Shaymaa Mohammed Hussein and 1 others
PMID 33587831WHAT IT FOUND
For adult cancer patients before chemotherapy, both Quran and music lowered anxiety scores more than waiting.
They did not differ from each other. Waiting alone also lowered scores.
Key findings
01Anxiety scores fell after the listening or waiting period in the control, Quran, and music groups.
02After the session, both the Quran and music groups had significantly lower anxiety scores than the control group (p = .000).
03The Quran and music groups did not differ significantly in post-session anxiety scores (p = .948).
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What it does not show
79 patients were excluded or withdrew during data collection, so the analysed sample was 159 of the 238 who agreed to participate. Patients had different cancers, disease stages, and chemotherapy types, which could affect anxiety before chemotherapy. The Quran verse and music theme were fixed, so they may not have matched patient preferences. There was no follow-up after the intervention, so the duration of any effect is unknown. Only two of five hospitals agreed to take part, so the setting was limited.
Declared interests
The authors declared no conflict of interest. No funding source is reported.
The easy way to misread this
Do not read this as proof that Quran is better than music. The two listening groups did not differ significantly after the session.