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The Anxiety‐ and Pain‐Reducing Effects of Music Interventions: A Systematic Review
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Musical interventions have been used in health care settings to reduce patient pain, anxiety, and stress, although the exact mechanism of these therapies is not well understood. This article provides a systematic review of 42 randomized controlled trials of the effects of music interventions in perioperative settings. Music intervention had positive effects on reducing patients' anxiety and pain in approximately half of the reviewed studies. Further research into music therapy is warranted in light of the low cost of implementation and the potential ability of music to reduce perioperative patient distress.
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“Lifestyle choices that reduce stress are thought to be highly protective against diseases (Dimsdale, 2008), and music may be among these (Dileo et al., 2007; Nilsson, 2008).”
BackgroundMinimising preoperative anxiety with music for day surgery patients – a randomised clinical trial
Ni, C., Tsai, W.-H., Lee, L.-M., Kao, C., & Chen, Y. (2011) · Journal of Clinical Nursing · doi:10.1111/j.1365-2702.2010.03466.x · Cited by 75
The impact of music on metabolism
Yamasaki, A., Booker, A., Kapur, V., Tilt, A. C., Nieß, H., Lillemoe, K. D., Warshaw, A. L., & Conrad, C. H. (2012) · Nutrition · doi:10.1016/j.nut.2012.01.020 · Cited by 80
“In clinical and non-clinical contexts, music has been shown to have a positive influence in wideranging fields such as stress reduction, relaxation, pain management, neural cognition, cardiac function, andmore [1–5].”
BackgroundWu, P.-Y., Huang, M.-L., Lee, W.-P., Wang, C., & Shih, W.-M. J. (2017) · Complementary Therapies in Medicine · doi:10.1016/j.ctim.2017.03.007 · Cited by 75
Wakim, J. H., Smith, S., & Guinn, C. A. (2010) · Journal of PeriAnesthesia Nursing · doi:10.1016/j.jopan.2010.05.009 · Cited by 80
Toker, E., & Kömürcü, N. (2016) · Complementary Therapies in Medicine · doi:10.1016/j.ctim.2016.11.005 · Cited by 72
Emotional regulation of pain: the role of noradrenaline in the amygdala
Strobel, C., Hunt, S., Sullivan, R., Sun, J., & Sah, P. (2014) · Science China Life Sciences · doi:10.1007/s11427-014-4638-x · Cited by 74
Zhang, Z., Wang, X.-L., Xu, C., Zhang, C., Cao, Z., Xu, W., Wei, R., & Ying-hao, S. U. N. (2014) · Journal of Endourology · doi:10.1089/end.2013.0705 · Cited by 69
“In recent years, music has been advocated as a therapeutic method to manage patients’ pain and anxiety.(5) The study by Lin and associates(6) had confirmed that patients’ spiritual, emotional, and psychological feelings could be satisfied by music intervention, and music engagement became more and more popular in peri…”
Music Listening: Its Effects in Creating a Healing Environment
McCaffrey, R. G. (2008) · Journal of Psychosocial Nursing and Mental Health Services · doi:10.3928/02793695-20081001-08 · Cited by 69
Harney, C., Johnson, J., Bailes, F., & Havelka, J. (2022) · Musicae Scientiae · doi:10.1177/10298649211046979 · Cited by 80
“Some research suggests that 30 minutes or above is an acceptable duration for a single session (see review by Nilsson, 2008), although to the best of our knowledge this is yet to be confirmed in a meta-analysis of this kind.”
BackgroundWeiland, T. J., Jelinek, G. A., Macarow, K., Samartzis, P., Brown, D. M., Grierson, E. M., & Winter, C. (2011) · The Medical Journal of Australia · doi:10.5694/mja10.10662 · Cited by 68
Jabbari, B., Mirghafourvand, M., Sehhatie, F., & Mohammad‐Alizadeh‐Charandabi, S. (2017) · Journal of Religion and Health · doi:10.1007/s10943-017-0417-x · Cited by 84
Group music therapy impacts mood states of adolescents in a psychiatric hospital setting
Shuman, J., Kennedy, H., DeWitt, P. E., Edelblute, A., & Wamboldt, M. Z. (2016) · The Arts in Psychotherapy · doi:10.1016/j.aip.2016.05.014 · Cited by 65
Uğur, H. G., Aktaş, Y. Y., Orak, O. S., Saglambilen, O., & Avci, İ. A. (2016) · Aging & Mental Health · doi:10.1080/13607863.2016.1222348 · Cited by 66
“In a meta-analysis of 42 randomized-controlled trials, Nilsson (2008) evaluated the impact of music on a patient’s vital signs and reported that music intervention had significantly reduced blood pressure in 22 of these studies.”
BackgroundEvaluation of pain and patient satisfaction by music therapy in patients with endoscopy/colonoscopy
Bashiri, M., Akçalı, D. T., Coşkun, D., Cindoruk, M., Dikmen, A. U., & Çifdalöz, B. U. (2018) · The Turkish Journal of Gastroenterology · doi:10.5152/tjg.2018.18200 · Cited by 64
The Effect of Hand Massage on Preoperative Anxiety in Ambulatory Surgery Patients
Brand, L. R., Munroe, D. J., & Gavin, J. (2013) · AORN Journal · doi:10.1016/j.aorn.2013.04.003 · Cited by 64
Nilsson, U. G., Lindell, L., Eriksson, A. B., & Kellerth, T. (2009) · European Journal of Cardiovascular Nursing · doi:10.1016/j.ejcnurse.2009.01.001 · Cited by 65
Self-citationNaylor, K. T., Kingsnorth, S., Lamont, A., McKeever, P. D., & Macarthur, C. (2010) · Evidence-based Complementary and Alternative Medicine · doi:10.1155/2011/464759 · Cited by 60
Ko, S. Y., Leung, D. Y. P., & Wong, E. M. L. (2019) · Clinical Interventions in Aging · doi:10.2147/cia.s207191 · Cited by 67
“Based on this theory, the colonoscopy procedure acts as a stressor for the patients in this study because patients often experience anxiety and pain due to the unfamiliar environment, previous negative experience with medical procedures and decreasing tolerance and pain thresholds.(13,27,28) Anxiety and pain are commo…”
MethodLi, J., Cai, Z., Li, X., Du, R., Shi, Z., Hua, Q., Zhang, M., Zhu, C., Zhang, L., & Zhan, X. (2021) · Annals of Palliative Medicine · doi:10.21037/apm-21-1212 · Cited by 59
“In approximately half of the studies reviewed, musical interventions were found to exert positive effects on reducing anxiety (14).”
BackgroundHachimi-Idrissi, S., Dobias, V., Hautz, W. E., Leach, R. N., Sauter, T. C., Sforzi, I., & Coffey, F. (2020) · Internal and Emergency Medicine · doi:10.1007/s11739-020-02411-2 · Cited by 61
Ting, B., Tsai, C.-L., Hsu, W.-T., Shen, M.-L., Tseng, P., Chen, D. T.-L., Su, K., & Jingling, L. (2022) · Journal of Clinical Medicine · doi:10.3390/jcm11040991 · Cited by 61
“Among all 38 studies, the participants listened to classical music in 11 articles [32,34,39–42,44,46,62,64,66], to kids’ music in 8 articles [31,36–38,45,49,61,65], to world music in 3 articles [54,56,60], to pop music in 3 articles [51,57,63], to special composition in 5 articles [11,35,47,48,59], and to multiple com…”
Background
Metadata
- Authors
- Nilsson, U.
- Affiliations
- Örebro University Hospital (SE)
- Corresponding author
- Nilsson, Ulrica
- ORCID
- Nilsson, Ulrica
- Venue
- AORN Journal
- Publisher
- Wiley
- Published
- 2008-04
- Volume
- 87
- Issue
- 4
- Pages
- 780-807
- ISSN
- 0001-2092 (ISSN-L)
- 1878-0369
- OpenAlex
- W1979494212
- Cited by
- 766
- References
- 77
- Citations by year
- 2026: 45 · 2025: 60 · 2024: 43 · 2023: 47 · 2022: 48 · 2021: 75 · 2020: 52 · 2019: 63 · 2018: 39 · 2017: 37 · 2016: 43 · 2015: 40 · 2014: 39 · 2013: 33 · 2012: 27
- FWCI
- 3.24
- Type
- journal article
- Language
- en
- Open access
- closed
- Locations
- AORN Journal (publishedVersion)
- PubMed (publishedVersion)
- Topics
- Social Sciences › Psychology › Social Psychology › Music Therapy and Health
- Life Sciences › Neuroscience › Cognitive Neuroscience › Neuroscience and Music Perception
- Social Sciences › Education › Music Education and Analysis
- Keywords
- music intervention, music therapy, perioperative anxiety, postoperative pain, patient distress, surgical patients, stress reduction
- MeSH terms
- Adult, Aged, Anxiety, Female, Humans, Male, Middle Aged, Music Therapy, Operating Room Nursing, Pain, Preoperative Care, Research Design, Severity of Illness Index, Time Factors, Nursing Evaluation Research, Randomized Controlled Trials as Topic, Treatment Outcome, Evidence-Based Medicine, Perioperative Care
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