Watching a movie or listening to music is effective in managing perioperative anxiety and pain: a randomised controlled trial.

ABSTRACT:

Purpose

Despite the use of perioperative anxiolytics and pain medication, surgery can be a stressful and painful experience. Providing patients with distractions using video and/or audio tools in addition to medication may be helpful. To date, no studies have compared different distraction modalities in a same-day surgical setting in adults. This study aims to determine whether audio-visual distraction with video glasses (AVD) is more effective in reducing anxiety and pain compared to audio distraction (AD) in conscious patients undergoing orthopaedic surgery. It was hypothesised that AVD, being the more immersive modality, would be more effective than AD on the outcome parameters.

Methods

Fifty patients undergoing orthopaedic surgery with local and/or regional anaesthesia i

SUBMITTER: Demirci H 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC10719121 | biostudies-literature | 2023 Dec

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature