ReviewCureus2021
Effect of Music Therapy on Pain, Anxiety, and Use of Opioids Among Patients Underwent Orthopedic Surgery: A Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis.
Review in Cureus, 2021. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. It is linked to trial NCT06778720 (Implementing Music Therapy for Video-Assisted Thoracoscopic Surgery Patients), which is not on this map. Cited by 20 papers, 2 of them syntheses that pooled it.
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Implementing Music Therapy for Video-Assisted Thoracoscopic Surgery Patients: A Quality Improvement Initiative
Who cites it
20 citing papers in PubMed, 2 syntheses or guidelines pooled it, 32 citations in OpenAlex.
- Effects of Music Intervention on Anxiety, Depression Symptoms and Quality of Life in Breast Cancer Patients: A Meta-Analysis.Actas espanolas de psiquiatria · 2023Pooled it
- Exploring the effect of music therapy as intervention to reduce anxiety pre- and post-operatively in CABG surgery: A quantitative systematic review.Nursing open · 2023Pooled it
- The effect of a mobile application-based music intervention on pain levels and analgesic consumption following surgery: a randomized controlled trial.Revista da Associacao Medica Brasileira (1992) · 2026Trial
- Trial
- Efficacy of Listening to Music on Pain Reduction during Colposcopy-Directed Cervical Biopsy: A Randomized, Controlled Trial.Medicina (Kaunas, Lithuania) · 2022Trial
- Clinical and mechanistic responses to a music-based intervention for pain in adults with irritable bowel syndrome: Protocol for a single-arm pilot study.medRxiv : the preprint server for health sciences · 2026Article
- The Impact of Recorded Music on Postoperative Delirium in Older Adults After Hip Fracture Surgery (IPOD): A Quasi-Experimental Study.Journal of the American Geriatrics Society · 2026Article
- Toward precision music medicine in oncology care: reproducible, scalable and biomarker-driven interventions.EClinicalMedicine · 2026Review
- Psychedelic Therapies for Comorbid Major Depressive Disorder and Chronic Pain: A Review of Putative Mechanisms of Action.Pharmacology research & perspectives · 2026Review
- A pilot protocol for conditioning music-cued relaxation responses in patients undergoing total shoulder arthroplasties.Frontiers in pain research (Lausanne, Switzerland) · 2026Article
- Association of role clarity on ethical behaviour among orthopaedic nurses: a cross-sectional study.BMJ open · 2025Article
- The effect of music and distraction on pain and anxiety during colonoscopy: a systematic review and meta-analysis.Therapeutic advances in gastroenterology · 2025Review
- Quality of nursing care in pain management in orthopedic surgical patients: a scoping review.Revista da Escola de Enfermagem da U S P · 2024Article
- Organ pedalboard as a rehabilitation tool: A qualitative exploratory study of healthcare providers' perceptions and recommendations.PloS one · 2024Article
- Novel Techniques for Musculoskeletal Pain Management after Orthopedic Surgical Procedures: A Systematic Review.Life (Basel, Switzerland) · 2023Review
- Article
- Review
- Effect of Preoperative Chronic Opioid Use on Mortality and Morbidity in Vascular Surgical Patients.Cureus · 2021Article
- Observational
- Impact of Music Therapy on Anxiety, Stress Indicators, and Intraoperative Anesthesia in Patients Undergoing Cesarean Section.Noise & healthArticle
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7 authors at 3 institutions in 1 country.
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Abstract
Background of the topic revealed that orthopedic surgery is one of the most painful surgeries in which music therapy is found to be effective for reducing pain and anxiety. This study aimed to examine the effect of music therapy on pain, anxiety, and the use of opioids among patients who underwent orthopedic surgery. Methods include a comprehensive search was conducted in PubMed/MEDLINE, Embase, Ovid, Clinical Key, and Google Scholar for relevant randomized controlled trials (RCTs) and quasi-experimental studies published until December 2020 in the English language regarding music therapy in comparison to standard care on pain, anxiety, and opioid use among postoperative orthopedic patients. Results of the study included 13 studies, having a total of 778 patients included in a systematic review comprising ten RCTs and three quasi-experimental studies. Meta-analysis was performed on ten RCTs. The results showed a significant difference between the two groups regarding the use of music therapy in reducing the pain [standard mean difference (SMD) = -0.27;
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