Trial reportRevista latino-americana de enfermagem2018
The effect of therapeutic listening on anxiety and fear among surgical patients: randomized controlled trial.
Trial report in Revista latino-americana de enfermagem, 2018. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. It is linked to trial NCT02455128 (The Influence of Therapeutic Listening on Anxiety and Fear Related to Surgery in Patients Preoperatively of Colorectal Surgery), which is not on this map. Cited by 9 papers, 2 of them syntheses that pooled it.
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The Influence of Therapeutic Listening on Anxiety and Fear Related to Surgery in Patients Preoperatively of Colorectal Surgery: a Randomized Clinical Trial
Who cites it
9 citing papers in PubMed, 2 syntheses or guidelines pooled it, 24 citations in OpenAlex.
- Psychosocial Interventions for Patients Undergoing Gastrointestinal Cancer Surgery: A Systematic Review.Annals of surgical oncology · 2026Pooled it
- The Effectiveness of Non-Pharmacological Interventions on Preoperative and Postoperative Anxiety Among Patients Undergoing Abdominal Surgery: A Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis.Worldviews on evidence-based nursing · 2026Pooled it
- Effects of a multistage virtual reality intervention on perioperative anxiety and recovery in patients undergoing elective gynecological surgery: a prospective single-blind randomized controlled trial.BMC anesthesiology · 2025Trial
- Mapping of Preoperative Screening Tools Reveals Urgent Need for Standardization in Gastrointestinal Cancer Surgery: A Scoping Review.World journal of surgery · 2026Article
- Managements for perioperative anxiety in patients with gastrointestinal cancers.Frontiers in psychiatry · 2024Review
- The Effect of Pre-operative Psychological Interventions on Psychological, Physiological, and Immunological Indices in Oncology Patients: A Scoping Review.Frontiers in psychology · 2022Article
- Psychometric evaluation of the Chinese version of fear of hospitalization scale among outpatients: A validation study.Frontiers in psychology · 2022Article
- Prehabilitation in elective abdominal cancer surgery in older patients: systematic review and meta-analysis.BJS open · 2020Review
- Nurse-Led Randomized Controlled Trials in the Perioperative Setting: A Scoping Review.Journal of multidisciplinary healthcare · 2020Article
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6 authors at 3 institutions in 2 countries.
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Abstract
objectiveTo investigate the effect of therapeutic listening on state anxiety and surgical fears in preoperative colorectal cancer patients.
methodA randomized controlled trial with 50 patients randomly allocated in the intervention group (therapeutic listening) (n = 25) or in the control group (n = 25). The study evaluated the changes in the variables state anxiety, surgical fears and physiological variables (salivary alpha-amylase, salivary cortisol, heart rate, respiratory rate and blood pressure).
resultsIn the comparison of the variables in the control and intervention groups in pre- and post-intervention, differences between the two periods for the variables cortisol (p=0.043), heart rate (p=0.034) and surgical fears (p=0.030) were found in the control group, which presented reduction in the values of these variables.
conclusionThere was no reduction in the levels of the variables state anxiety and surgical fears resulting from the therapeutic listening intervention, either through the physiological or psychological indicators. However, the contact with the researcher during data collection, without stimulus to reflect on the situation, may have generated the results of the control group. Clinical Trial Registration: NCT02455128.
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