Effects of Combining Music Therapy, Light Therapy, and Chromotherapy in the Treatment of Chronic Pain Patients: A Pilot Study

Table 3

Evolution of BPI and HAD scores between D0 and D22 on according to the type of pathology responsible for the pain.

	Pretreatment		Posttreatment		Change	% improvement		d
	Mean	SD	Mean	SD
Rheumatic pain
Background pain/10	5.9	1.1	2.5	1.8	3.4	56	<0.001	1.9
Painful attacks (n/day)	7.6	1.2	5.0	1.7	2.6	35	<0.001	2.2
General activity/10	5.5	2.8	3.3	2.1	2.2	41	=0.016	0.8
Mood/10	3.7	2.8	2.6	2.0	1.1	28	=0.323	0.4
Walking ability/10	4.8	1.9	3.5	2.3	1.3	32	=0.144	0.7
Normal work/10	4.8	1.9	3.5	2.3	1.3	31	=0.144	0.7
Relation with other people/10	2.9	2.8	2.1	2.5	0.8	37	=0.521	0.3
Sleep/10	3.5	2.8	2.5	2.4	1.0	35	=0.349	0.4
Enjoyment of life/10	2.8	2.9	1.9	2.2	0.9	35	=0.499	0.3
Anxiety/21	8.1	5.0	6.4	4.9	1.7	23	=0.476	0.3
Depression/21	6.4	3.9	4.6	4.2	1.8	37	=0.274	0.5
Widespread pain
Background pain/10	5.8	1.7	2.4	1.4	3.4	57	<0.001	2.5
Painful attacks (n/day)	7.3	2.7	3.9	2.0	3.3	42	<0.001	1.2
General activity/10	6.5	2.5	4.5	3.2	2.0	31	=0.077	0.8
Mood/10	5.3	3.2	3.8	2.7	1.5	20	=0.267	0.4
Walking ability/10	5.1	2.7	3.5	3.0	1.6	27	=0.128	0.6
Normal work/10	6.8	2.0	5.3	2.6	1.5	20	=0.142	0.6
Relation with other people/10	4.4	3.1	3.2	2.9	1.2	−11	=0.351	0.4
Sleep/10	6.8	2.7	3.7	2.5	3.1	37	=0.012	1.2
Enjoyment of life/10	5.2	3.7	3.3	3.0	1.9	27	=0.219	0.5
Anxiety/21	12.7	3.7	7.9	2.6	4.8	32	<0.004	1.3
Depression/21	8.5	5.6	4.8	3.5	3.7	33	=0.060	0.7
Spinal pain
Background pain/10	5.9	1.2	3.9	2.0	2.0	35	=0.012	1.0
Painful attacks (n/day)	8.2	1.1	5.6	1.8	2.6	32	<0.002	2.3
General activity/10	5.7	3.2	3.5	2.5	2.2	37	=0.021	0.7
Mood/10	5.9	2.8	4.0	2.2	1.9	27	=0.051	0.7
Walking ability/10	5.6	3.4	3.7	2.8	1.9	24	=0.118	0.6
Normal work/10	7.5	1.6	5.7	1.6	1.8	23	=0.025	1.2
Relation with other people/10	5.0	3.0	4.2	2.6	0.8	14	=0.376	0.3
Sleep/10	5.7	2.6	4.2	2.7	1.5	21	=0.164	0.6
Enjoyment of life/10	5.2	3.3	2.7	2.6	2.5	47	=0.065	0.8
Anxiety/21	10.6	2.5	7.8	4.1	2.8	28	<0.002	1.1
Depression/21	6.4	4.4	6.1	4.7	0.3	1	=0.896	0.1

In patients with chronic spinal pain, 5 items improved, with 4 of them showing a significant effect size (between 1.0 and 2.2).