Musicothérapie à l’Hôpital des Enfants des HUG (Genève)

Successfully piloted in 2019-2022, the project aims to strengthen the music-therapy interventions inside 6 paediatric wards of HUG (ICU, MED B1-B2, paediatric surgery, oncology and neonatal care unit) and in parallel, to launch the preparatory phase of a research study at the neonatal care unit.
More specifically, the project aims to:

• humanize the hospital experience and allow young patients to build a space of autonomy and freedom, from where to recover their identity as active subjects;
• reactivate their creative abilities and interpersonal ties to reduce the feeling of isolation and loneliness, induced by medical treatments, and mitigate their feeling of powerlessness in the face of illness;
• improve the doctor-patient relationship through a sensory stimulation that, through play, enhance the externalization of feelings, sensations and emotions;
• improve the medical work environment, and reduce the stress of doctors, paramedics and nurses;
• extend and replicate music-therapy interventions inside the neonatal care unit and disseminate the Best Practices in other contexts of health discomfort in Switzerland.