The Effect of Music on Preoperative Anxiety in an Operating Room: a Single-Blind Randomized Controlled Trial

This study aimed to determine the effect of music as an intervention on relieving preoperative anxiety in patients with dental fear in an outpatient operating room (OR) before intravenous sedation (IVS). Sixty adult patients with dental fear undergoing dental surgery under IVS were divided into 2 gr...

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Published in:Anesthesia progress 2022-04, Vol.69 (1), p.24-30
Main Authors: Wakana, Keiichiro, Kimura, Yukifumi, Nitta, Yukie, Fujisawa, Toshiaki
Format: Article
Language:English
Subjects:
Adult
Anesthesiology
Anxiety
Anxiety - etiology
Anxiety - prevention & control
Clinical trials
Demographics
Fainting
Fear
Heart rate
Humans
Intravenous administration
Music
Music Therapy
Nervous system
Operating Rooms
Parasympathetic nervous system
Patients
Scientific Reports
Single-Blind Method
Stress
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Summary:This study aimed to determine the effect of music as an intervention on relieving preoperative anxiety in patients with dental fear in an outpatient operating room (OR) before intravenous sedation (IVS). Sixty adult patients with dental fear undergoing dental surgery under IVS were divided into 2 groups (music and nonmusic). The music group listened to music in the waiting room until immediately before the initiation of IVS whereas the nonmusic group did not. Patient anxiety was objectively measured using heart rate variability (HRV) analysis to assess the low-frequency/high-frequency ratio as an indication of sympathetic or parasympathetic nervous system activity. Subjective preoperative anxiety was evaluated with a visual analog scale (VAS). Heart rate variability analysis failed to demonstrate any significant difference between the 2 groups from baseline to start of IVS. There were also no significant differences between the 2 groups regarding changes in VAS scores. Music intervention was not found to reduce preoperative anxiety in patients with dental fear before IVS in the dental outpatient OR as determined by HRV analysis or VAS scores.
ISSN:0003-3006
1878-7177
DOI:10.2344/anpr-68-03-06