A Study of the Effect of Music on Postoperative Patients in the Recovery Room

Abstract: This study tested the hypothesis that music played in the recovery room of a general hospital would aid in the recovery of postoperative patients. The experimental and the control groups consisted of 50 patients each. Sixty minutes of taped music with a 15-minute period of no music was played to each patient in the experimental group. The test comparisons were made between the means of the experimental and the control groups on the following variables: anxiety, excitement, nasea, overt pain, skin response, rate of recovery, overall recovery, time of recovery, blood pressure, pulse rate, and respiration. All of the data pertaining to the above items were recorded by the nurse in the recovery room. The results indicated that music had no effect on the patients with regard to the measured variables. In fact, those patients in the control group had significantly less nausea than those in the experimental group.

Note: post-operative.

Keyword(s): background-music, surgery, recovery, general-hospital.

Zurück | Weiter