Music therapy can help children cope with immunizations

Music is not only used for entertainment, but it also has an extremely medical development that is especially useful for children who have to get vaccinated.

Before, vaccination with children is an extreme as well as a nightmare that is never wanted for children. And the fact that their parents witnessed their children's pain and screaming did not escape the feeling of being sad.

So, Olivia Yinger, a music therapist at the University of Kentucky in Lexington, has discovered that music therapy can help children and parents escape feelings of horror when children get vaccinated .

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To reach this conclusion, Olivia Yinger and her team conducted many experiments at three health facilities in 2011–2012 in 58 children aged 4–6, along with 62 parents, and 19 nurse vaccination for children.

Yinger selected randomly 29 children and their parents and proceeded to immunize. However, this young part when vaccinated opened their favorite songs , children's music , parents listened to, sang along with these songs and played favorite children's instruments while the children were vaccinated. . Meanwhile, the rest of the youth are vaccinated in the traditional way.

Experimental results showed that children vaccinated in the context of listening to music , listening to their parents singing and playing musical instruments helped them face immunizations more easily, they limited screaming , level The pain of getting vaccinated, the parents are happy, less worried when they see their shots.

In the meantime, young people who are vaccinated in a traditional, vegetarian style are still horrified nightmares with children and parents.

This is a wonderful therapy coming from music and sound. However, to apply to hospitals, vaccination centers is a very difficult thing about regulations, time , as well as medical expenses . Dr. Melissa Stockwell, a specialist The pediatrician and vaccinator at Columbia Mailman University in New York City said in a statement.

This research has just been published in the Journal of online music therapy.

Huynh Dung ( According to Reuters)