the above result was supported by the study conducted in the department of cardiothoracic surgery and centre for health care science in Orebro University on soothing music can increase oxytocin level during bed rest after open-heart surgery.
Results revealed that levels of oxytocin increased significantly in contrast to the control group, there were also a significant higher level of pao2 in the music group compared to the control group [4].
Another study conducted in the Department of medicine and care in Sweden on effect of music on postoperative pain.
The results revealed that patient exposed to music intra-operatively or post operatively reported significantly lower pain intensity at first and second post operative day and patient in the post operative music group required less morphine at 1hr compared to the control group [5].
A study conducted in which 20 patients diagnosed with cancer were divided into a group receiving music therapy or a control group.
Utilizing the Beak Depression inventory, Hospital Anxiety and Depression scale, and the Hamburg Quality of life Questionnaire in the author found significant improvement in the scale values of self esteem, depression and anxiety in the group receiving music therapy [6]. The other study found that patients in the music therapy experienced significantly less pain and stress than those in the patient with pain medication only in control group among cancer patient [7].
In a study of 50 hospitalized cancer patients, half of the randomly assigned participants with live music and other half with a recorded music.
The profile of mood status was administered prior to and after the music therapy session. Patients receiving live music were significantly more likely to report an increase in vigor as well as decreased tension and anxiety than those individual receiving taped music [8].