: This controlled and experimental study was conducted in the emergency department of a hospital
in Turkey between July and October 2012. The study sample consisted of 200 patients in total, 100 forming
the intervention group and 100 being the control group, who fell under color code green in the triage system
and came with complaints of pain due to nausea/vomiting and diarrhea, abdominal pain, headaches, and
joint pain. A questionnaire, the State Anxiety Scale, and the Visual Analog Scale to measure the patients’
level of pain were used in the study. The questionnaires of the intervention group were administered after
playing the music.