METHODOLOGY
Design and Setting
A randomised controlled trial design with a repeated
measures approach was used to determine the
effect of selected music on anxiety levels. Patients
were randomly assigned to either the experiment or
the control group. The patients were recruited from
a 60 bed inpatient urology clinic between 20 April
2007 and 25 May 2007. Patients were eligible to
participate if they were between the ages of 18 and
65; and could speak, read and write Turkish. They
were not eligible to participate if they were deaf,
had altered mental status or cognitive impairment
either by history or identified during the initial