The effect of music therapy on postoperative pain intensity in patients under spinal
anesthesia
A R T I C L E
Aims: Music as a non-pharmacological and inexpensive nursing intervention
can be used easily as complementary technique and can be effective in
reducing pain with other methods. The aim of this study was to investigate the
effect of music therapy on postoperative pain intensity in patients under spinal
anesthesia.
Methods: In this semi-experimental study which has been done in 2011 in the
operation room of Baqiyatallah and Khanevadeh hospital in Tehran, sixty
male in ASA (American society of Anesthesiological) 1 between 18-44 years
old undergoing urological and abdominal surgeries with spinal anethesia were
studied. Patients were randomly divided into two groups of thirty persons.
Patients in music group listened to Huan Sepastian Bakh's music about six
minutes after induction of spinal anesthesia to the end by headphones. The
control group did not receive any intervention. About three hours after surgery
and before receiving any narcotic drugs, postoperative pain was measured and
recorded by visual analog scale. Also consumption of narcotic drugs was
recorded in the 24 hours after surgery.