Music as a nursing intervention: effects of music listening on blood pressure, heart rate, and respiratory rate in abdominal surgery patients
Vaajoki A, Kankkunen P, Pietilä AM, Vehviläinen-Julkunen K
Nursing & health sciences · 15 citations
How it was studied
- Design
- Controlled clinical trial (classified by our AI screen)
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- People
- Main outcome
- Health markers and function
Who paid for it
- Funding
- Independent funding
- University or hospital
- Kuopion Yliopistollinen Sairaala
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Publication
- Published
- 2011-09-08 · Nurs Health Sci · vol. 13 · issue 4 · pp. 412–418
- Publisher
- Wiley
- Cited
- 43 citations · more than 89% of similar papers · 2.8× the field average
- References
- 20 works
- Access
- Paywalled
- Research areas
- Music Therapy and Health · Intensive Care Unit Cognitive Disorders · Family and Patient Care in Intensive Care Units
- Keywords
- Medicine, Respiratory rate, Heart rate, Blood pressure, Music therapy, Anesthesia, Active listening, Respiratory system, Surgery, Physical therapy, Internal medicine, Psychology
- MeSH
- abdomen, humans, pain measurement, music therapy, chi-square distribution, affect, nurse-patient relations, blood pressure, heart rate, time factors, music, aged, middle aged, female, male, respiratory rate, postoperative pain
4 authors
From FI
- Anne VaajokiUniversity of Eastern Finland
- Päivi KankkunenUniversity of Eastern Finland
- Anna‐Maija PietiläUniversity of Eastern Finland
- Katri M. Vehviläinen-JulkunenUniversity of Eastern Finland
Abstract
Contradictory results have been presented on how music listening affects patients' blood pressure, heart rate, and respiratory rate. The aim of the present study was to evaluate the effects of music listening on blood pressure, heart rate, and respiratory rate on operation day, and on the first, second, and third postoperative days in abdominal surgery patients. Using a quasi-experimental pretest-post-test design, 168 abdominal surgery patients were assigned every second week to the music group (n=83) or to the control group (n=85) for 25 months. In the music group, the respiratory rate was significantly lower after intervention on both the first and second postoperative days compared with the control group. A significant reduction in systolic blood pressure was demonstrated in the group that received music compared with the control group on both the first and second postoperative days. Evaluation of the long-term effects of music on physiological factors showed that the respiratory rate in the music group was significantly lower compared with the control group. Nurses should offer music listening to surgery patients because of its potential benefit.
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