Meditative music listening to reduce state anxiety in patients during the uptake phase before positron emission tomography (PET) scans
Lee WL, Sung HC, Liu SH, Chang SM
The British journal of radiology · 24 citations
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How it was studied
- Design
- Randomized controlled trial (indexed by PubMed)
- Studied in
- People
- Main outcome
- Health markers and function
Who paid for it
- Funding
- Funding not disclosed
Publication
- Published
- 2016-11-29 · Br J Radiol · vol. 90 · issue 1070 · p. 20160466
- Publisher
- Wiley
- Cited
- 44 citations · more than 90% of similar papers · 2.8× the field average
- Impact
- Top 10% most cited in its field
- References
- 32 works
- Access
- Open access (repository copy)
- Research areas
- Music Therapy and Health · Intensive Care Unit Cognitive Disorders · Acupuncture Treatment Research Studies
- Keywords
- Anxiety, Positron emission tomography, Medicine, Heart rate variability, Heart rate, Active listening, Nuclear medicine, Audiology, Psychology, Internal medicine, Blood pressure, Psychiatry, Psychotherapist
- MeSH
- humans, fluorodeoxyglucose f18, radiopharmaceuticals, positron-emission tomography, meditation, music therapy, anxiety, heart rate, middle aged, female, male
4 authors
From TW
- Wen-Li LeeTzu Chi University
- Huei‐Chuan SungTzu Chi University
- Shu‐Hsin Liu
- Shu‐Min ChangTzu Chi University
Abstract
Objective
This study examines the effects of listening to meditative music on state anxiety and heart rate variability (HRV) of patients during the uptake phase before positron emission tomography (PET) scans.
Methods
A two-group randomized experimental design was used. Eligible patients were randomly assigned to either the experimental or control group. All patients received baseline assessments of state anxiety using Spielberger State-Trait Anxiety Inventory (STAI-S) and HRV before receiving an intravenous injection of radiopharmaceutical fluorine-18 fludeoxyglucose in the uptake room. The experimental group (n = 35) listened individually to 30 min of meditative music, integrating Chinese "Chi" and western frequency resonation in the uptake room. The control group (n = 37) lay on bed quietly for 40 min in the uptake room without music. All patients were assessed for their anxiety level and HRV again, before receiving PET scanning as post-test.
Results
The results indicated that patients in the experimental group showed a significant reduction in state anxiety and heart rate, and increase on high frequency norm of HRV (p < 0.001). There was a statistically significant reduction on anxiety level (p < 0.001), heart rate (p < 0.001) and high frequency norm (p = 0.001) in the experimental group compared with those of the control group.
Conclusion
Listening to meditative music as a non-invasive and cost-effective strategy can help maximize efforts to promote comfort and relaxation for patients awaiting stressful procedures, such as PET scans. Meditative music can be effective in alleviating state anxiety of patients during the uptake phase before PET scans. Advances in knowledge: The study provides scientific evidence of the effects of listening to meditative music for reducing state anxiety in patients during the uptake phase before PET scans. It may have the potential to lower the risk of unwanted false-positive fluorine-18 fludeoxyglucose uptake in normal organs and to further improve image quality and image interpretation. Listening to meditative music is a safe and inexpensive intervention which can be incorporated into routine procedures to reduce anxiety of patients undergoing PET scans.
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