Trial reportYonsei medical journal2014
Perioperative psychological and music interventions in elderly patients undergoing spinal anesthesia: effect on anxiety, heart rate variability, and postoperative pain.
Trial report in Yonsei medical journal, 2014. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. It is linked to 2 registered trials, which are not on this map. Cited by 15 papers, 3 of them syntheses that pooled it.
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The Effect of Music Therapy on Preoperative Anxiety in Elective Surgery
The Effects of Listening Music During Breathing Exercises on Vital Sings and Pulmonary Functions After Video-assisted Thoracoscopic Surgery:A Randomized-controlled Study
Who cites it
15 citing papers in PubMed, 3 syntheses or guidelines pooled it.
- Effect of music intervention on heart rate variability: a systematic review and meta-analysis of randomized controlled trials.Frontiers in psychology · 2026Pooled it
- Harmonious ageing: a narrative review of music therapy in the biomedical literature.European geriatric medicine · 2025Pooled it
- Meta-analysis evaluating music interventions for anxiety and pain in surgery.The British journal of surgery · 2018Pooled it
- Effects of Patient-Preferred Music on Anxiety, Pain, and Quality of Recovery After Knee Arthroplasty Under Spinal Anesthesia: A Randomized Controlled Trial.Clinical nursing research · 2026Trial
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- The Effect of Music on the Comfort and Anxiety of Older Adults Living in a Nursing Home in Turkey.Journal of religion and health · 2019Trial
- Operating room experiences of patients undergoing TURP under spinal anaesthesia.Irish journal of medical science · 2026Article
- Psychological skills training impacts autonomic nervous system responses to stress during sport-specific imagery: An exploratory study in junior elite shooters.Frontiers in psychology · 2023Article
- Review of Perioperative Music Medicine: Mechanisms of Pain and Stress Reduction Around Surgery.Frontiers in medicine · 2022Review
- Reducing Anxiety through Music Therapy for Regional Anesthesia Cases in Operating Theatre.Iranian journal of public health · 2020Article
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- The question of preoperative anxiety and depression in older patients and family protectors.Anesthesia and pain medicine · 2020Article
- Effect of music on postoperative pain in patients under open heart surgery.Nursing and midwifery studies · 2014Article
- Preoperative information as predictor of the patient's fear and anxiety before surgery Systematic review of qualitative and quantitative literature.Saudi journal of anaesthesiaArticle
- Scoping review of the association between postsurgical pain and heart rate variability parameters.Pain reportsArticle
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Abstract
purposeThe aim of this study was to evaluate the effects of perioperative psychological and music interventions in elderly patients undergoing elective surgery on anxiety, post-operative pain, and changes in heart rate variability (HRV) to ascertain if perioperative psychological and music interventions can affect overall anxiety levels. MATERIALS AND
methodsFourty elderly patients undergoing elective surgery were randomized to two groups; one group received psychological and music intervention, and the other was the control. The intervention group underwent psychological intervention and listening to music for 30 min before surgery.
resultsThe mean change in HRV as determined by low frequency (LF) power measurements. After the intervention, the ratio of mean LF to high frequency (HF) power decreased significantly in the intervention group compared to before the intervention (p<0.05). In the control group, mean LF measurements and the ratio of LF:HF did not change significantly. In the intervention group, mean HF power was significantly higher after the procedure than before (p<0.01). Moreover, the mean self-rating anxiety score of the intervention group decreased after the procedure compared to before (p<0.05). The mean visual analogue score of the intervention group 6 hours after surgery was significantly lower than that of the control group (p<0.01).
conclusionPerioperative psychological and music interventions can reduce anxiety and postoperative pain in elderly patients.
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