Palliative Care: Qualitative Research

There has been a lot of debate on whether or not palliative care is really effective. Amy Clements-Cortes (2016) wrote that “Up until 2005 most studies on palliative care music therapy were qualitative in nature,” (pg. 127). Meaning it was more about quality over quantity, and Tracey McConnell, David Scott and Sam Porter (2016) explained in their article that “Qualitative research suggests that music therapy is beneficial to palliative care patients such as helping them express difficult emotions, helping patients and families find closure at the end of life and improving staff mood and resilience” (pg. 881). Everyone has different opinions and as time goes by, more evidence has been found that proves music therapy is effective, but at the