Reduce Depression in Children with Cancer through Rhythmic Movements

Cancer is known as one of the most common and growing diseases around the world. This disease is associated with various physical and mental effects. One of these effects can be depression. Rhythmic movements are an effective way to reduce depression. This review was conducted with the aim of influencing the Rhythmic movement on depression in children with cancer.

This study is a systematic review of published and available internal and external sources of keyword depression, a child with cancer, and rhythmic movements between 2000 and 2014 in ProQuest, Scopus, PubMed, Elsevier, SID and Iran databases. Medex was done.
Out of 42 articles, 11 Persian articles and 6 English articles related to Rhythmic Movements on depression in children with cancer were studied.

The results of the study showed that there are several non-pharmacological approaches to reducing and controlling depression. Among the non-prescriptive methods of reducing depression were rhythmic movements, music therapy, and light therapy. But rhythmic movements are effective as a non-drug, easy, accessible to a depressed person.

Finally Rhythmic movements reduce depression, stress, and increase children's compliance with therapeutic regimens. Therefore, it is recommended that nurses in the children's section, especially oncology, use artistic techniques to reduce psychiatric problems caused by cancer, such as depression