Meta-analysis evaluating music interventions for anxiety and pain in surgery.

ABSTRACT:

Background

This study aimed to evaluate anxiety and pain following perioperative music interventions compared with control conditions in adult patients.

Methods

Eleven electronic databases were searched for full-text publications of RCTs investigating the effect of music interventions on anxiety and pain during invasive surgery published between 1 January 1980 and 20 October 2016. Results and data were double-screened and extracted independently. Random-effects meta-analysis was used to calculate effect sizes as standardized mean differences (MDs). Heterogeneity was investigated in subgroup analyses and metaregression analyses. The review was registered in the PROSPERO database as CRD42016024921.

Results

Ninety-two RCTs (7385 patients) were included in the systematic

SUBMITTER: Kuhlmann AYR 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC6175460 | biostudies-literature | 2018 Jun

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature