SynthesisBMC complementary medicine and therapies2025
Effects of music therapy on physiological response and anxiety in perioperative ophthalmic patients: a systematic review.
Synthesis in BMC complementary medicine and therapies, 2025. 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.
What it found
Each row is one number read from the abstract, on the scale the paper reported it, with its interval. Left of the dashed line favours the treatment, right favours the comparator. Under each row is the sentence it came from. New to these charts? A ten-minute tutorial.
The abstract states no effect estimate the extractor could read, or names no intervention and outcome on the map, so this paper lights no cell and moves no belief. It is still indexed, cited and linked below.
The trial behind it
Trials whose registry record cites this paper, or whose number appears in the abstract. A trial that started after this paper was published is citing it as background, not reporting it.
Neither the registry nor the abstract names a trial number. If this is a trial report, that itself is worth knowing.
Who cites it
6 citing papers in PubMed, 1 synthesis or guideline pooled it.
- The efficacy of music therapy in alleviating anxiety among college students: a systematic review and meta-analysis.Frontiers in psychology · 2025Pooled it
- Trial
- Preoperative information needs and preferences of refractive surgery patients: a discrete choice experiment.Frontiers in medicine · 2026Article
- Effects of Background Music and Multimedia Exposure on Patient-Reported Anxiety in Ophthalmology Waiting Rooms: A Quasi-Experimental Study.Clinical ophthalmology (Auckland, N.Z.) · 2026Article
- Article
- Observational
Corrections and comments
PubMed lists nothing against this paper. Absence here is not a guarantee, only a check that was made.
Authors and funding
5 authors.
Funding
No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.
Abstract
purposeThe purpose of this study is to evaluate the effectiveness of music therapy on physiological response and anxiety in perioperative ophthalmic patients. Furthermore, to explore the differentiation of intervention effects based on different intervention timing and music types.
methodsFive databases including PubMed, Embase, Web of Science, the Cochrane library and CINAHL were adopted for comprehensive search, from the inception of the database to October 2024. Reported according to the PRISMA 2020 statement. Methodological quality was assessed using Version 2 of the Cochrane tool for assessing risk of bias in randomized trial (Rob2). Revman manager 5.4 software was used for meta-analysis.
resultsNine studies (1331 patients) were included. The meta-analysis results showed that the intervention effect of the music intervention group was better than that of the control group, which had positive effects on lower systolic blood pressure (SBP) [mean difference (MD)=-5.86, 95% confidence interval (CI)=-7.97~-3.74, Z = 5.44, p < 0.001], lower diastolic blood pressure (DBP) (MD=-3.57, 95%CI=-6.80~-0.35, Z = 2.17, p = 0.03) and reducing anxiety [standard mean difference (SMD)=-0.80, 95%CI=-0.94~-0.66, Z = 11.2, p < 0.001)], but not statistically significant for heart rate/pulse rate (HR/PR) change (MD=-1.08, 95%CI=-2.29 ~ 0.12, Z = 1.77, p = 0.08). The subgroup analysis results showed that music intervention before surgery, as well as before and during surgery, could reduce the function of SBP and DBP (p-values all less than 0.05); All types of music have significance in reducing SBP (p-values all less than 0.001); Better intervention effect in binaural beats music (BBM) group than control group in decreasing HR/PR (p = 0.01) can be found; Regardless of the timing of intervention (preopertive, p < 0.001; intraoperative, p = 0.008; preoperative and intraoperative, p < 0.001) or the type of music (BBM, p < 0.001; other types of music, p < 0.001), music therapy has a significant effect on reducing patient perioperative anxiety compared to the control group.
conclusionOverall, music therapy contributes to reducing both SBP and DBP, and anxiety level for perioperative ophthalmic patients. The intervention timing of preoperative, or both in preoperative and intraoperative, as well as music type of binaural beats, may have better effects on clinical indicators. PROSPERO REGISTRATION: This systematic review was registered a priori with PROSPERO in September 22, 2023. PROSPERO registration number: CRD42023465797.
Indexed as
Identifiers
What OpenQuestion holds
Registered trials
Read under generation 80e0d062 · epoch 390. Bibliography from PubMed, PubMed Central and OpenAlex; grants from NIH RePORTER; trial links from ClinicalTrials.gov; estimates, votes and beliefs from the OpenQuestion graph.