ArticleEvidence-based complementary and alternative medicine : eCAM2013
The effect of live spontaneous harp music on patients in the intensive care unit.
Article in Evidence-based complementary and alternative medicine : eCAM, 2013. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 6 papers, 1 of them a synthesis that pooled it.
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- Effectiveness of Music-Based Intervention in Improving Uncomfortable Symptoms in ICU Patients: An Umbrella Review.International journal of environmental research and public health · 2021Pooled it
- Live music in the intensive care unit - a beautiful experience.International journal of qualitative studies on health and well-being · 2024Article
- The Effect of Music as a Non-Pharmacological Intervention on the Physiological, Psychological, and Social Response of Patients in an Intensive Care Unit.Healthcare (Basel, Switzerland) · 2023Article
- Acceptability and Feasibility of a Patient-Oriented Music Intervention to Reduce Pain in the Intensive Care Unit: Protocol for a Crossover Pilot Randomized Controlled Trial.JMIR research protocols · 2023Article
- Current Perspectives on the Assessment and Management of Pain in the Intensive Care Unit.Journal of pain research · 2021Review
- Neural and Behavioral Effects of Harp Music: Frontal Alpha Suppression and Reaction Times in Relation to Depression-Related Traits.Journal of evidence-based integrative medicineArticle
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Abstract
This study was performed to investigate the effect of live, spontaneous harp music on individual patients in an intensive care unit (ICU), either pre- or postoperatively. The purpose was to determine whether this intervention would serve as a relaxation or healing modality, as evidenced by the effect on patient's pain, heart rate, respiratory rate, blood pressure, oxygen saturation, and heart rate variability. Each consenting patient was randomly assigned to receive either a live 10-minute concert of spontaneous music played by an expert harpist or a 10-minute rest period. Spontaneous harp music significantly decreased patient perception of pain by 27% but did not significantly affect heart rate, respiratory rate, oxygen saturation, blood pressure, or heart rate variability. Trends emerged, although being not statistically significant, that systolic blood pressure increased while heart rate variability decreased. These findings may invoke patient engagement, as opposed to relaxation, as the underlying mechanism of the decrease in the patients' pain and of the healing benefit that arises from the relationship between healer, healing modality, and patient.
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