Music can lift our mood, reduce stress, improve sleep, boost self-confidence, and increase energy. What's more? Listening to your favorite song can also make medicines you're taking more effective, according to researchers at Michigan State University. Music-listening interventions have been studied as a tool to treat pain and anxiety. Jason Kiernan, an assistant professor in the College of Nursing, studied the effects of music-listening interventions on chemotherapy-induced nausea. The results were published in the journal Clinical Nursing Research. According to Kiernan, chemotherapy-induced nausea is a neurological phenomenon, and not a stomach condition. Benefits of music during chemotherapy treatment As part of the study, patients undergoing chemotherapy treatment were asked to listen to their favorite music for 30 minutes each time they needed to take their anti-nausea medication. They repeated the music intervention each time nausea occurred and continued for about fiv...
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