Effect of music therapy on anxiety levels on patient undergoing dental extractions
Packyanathan JS, Lakshmanan R, Jayashri P
Journal of family medicine and primary care · 26 citations
How it was studied
- Design
- Controlled clinical trial (classified by our AI screen)
- Studied in
- People
- Main outcome
- Health markers and function
Who paid for it
- Funding
- Independent funding
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Publication
- Published
- 2019-01-01 · J Family Med Prim Care · vol. 8 · issue 12 · p. 3854
- Publisher
- Medknow
- Cited
- 67 citations · more than 98% of similar papers · 8.0× the field average
- Impact
- Top 10% most cited in its field
- References
- 56 works
- Access
- Open access (journal) · CC-BY-NC-SA
- Research areas
- Dental Anxiety and Anesthesia Techniques · Music Therapy and Health · Anesthesia and Sedative Agents
- Keywords
- Medicine, Anxiety, Blood pressure, Heart rate, Population, Music therapy, Diastole, Hemodynamics, Anesthesia, Physical therapy, Internal medicine, Psychiatry
3 authors
From IN
- Reema Lakshmanan · correspondingSaveetha University
- JerushaS PackyanathanSaveetha University
- P. JayashriSaveetha University
Abstract
Background and aims
Dental anxiety has been found to be a significant problem faced by patients undergoing extractions. Anxious patients tend to avoid dental care ultimately leading to complications. Treatment of anxious patients can be very challenging to the dentists, prolonging the treatment duration. There has been various methods to reduce anxiety of which non pharmacological ways include music and aroma therapy. Music has been known to reduce fear, stress and is a form of meditation and relaxation. Hence effect of music on the reduction of anxiety levels for patients undergoing extractions were assessed. The aim of this study is to assess the effect of music therapy on dental anxiety levels of patients undergoing extractions.
Methods
50 patients visiting the outpatient department of Saveetha Dental College for dental extractions were randomly selected and allocated to Test group and Control group. The test group (N = 25) were subjected to music during extractions and Control (N = 25) were not exposed. Dental anxiety levels and hemodynamic changes namely systolic pressure, diastolic pressure and heart rate were assessed before and after extraction. The data was collected and analyzed using SPSS software with Paired t Test.
Results
The study showed that the control population had elevated hemodynamic changes with regard to systolic, diastolic blood pressure and heart rate, of which the diastolic pressure rise was significant. In the test population, there was fall in the hemodynamic changes with respect to systolic diastolic blood pressure and heart rate, all of which were statistically significant. This was evident in the modified dental anxiety scale as well.
Conclusion
Music seems to be a psychological and spiritual way to calm oneself down. Hence music therapy can be used as an anxiolytic agent for stressful dental procedures.
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