Music therapy to relieve anxiety in pregnant women on bedrest: a randomized, controlled trial.
OBJECTIVE
To explore the effect of music therapy on anxiety alleviation for antepartal women on bedrest in China.


METHODS
One hundred and twenty patients recruited from one tertiary hospital in Changsha city, China were enrolled in a randomized controlled trial. Women in the experimental group received music therapy for 30 minutes on 3 consecutive days. Usual care participants had a 30-minute rest on 3 consecutive days. Variables included anxiety (State-Trait Anxiety Inventory), and physiological responses (vital signs, fetal heart rate). Descriptive statistics, t tests, chi tests, Wilcoxon rank sum tests, and Pearson correlation analyses were used to analyze the data.


RESULTS
Anxiety levels decreased and physiological responses improved significantly in the intervention group, which was provided with music therapy while on bedrest.


CONCLUSIONS
Carefully selected music that incorporates a patient's own preferences may offer an inexpensive and effective method to reduce anxiety for antepartal women with high risk pregnancies who are on bedrest.
Yang
Min
M
The Mental Health Institute, the Second Xiangya Hospital of Central South University, Changsha Hunan, China. yangmin426@yahoo.com.cn
Li
Lingjiang
L
Zhu
Haili
H
Alexander
Ivy M
IM
Liu
Shan
S
Zhou
Wei
W
Ren
Xiaohong
X
D000328:Adult; D001007:Anxiety / Q000209:etiology / Q000451:nursing / Q000628:therapy*; D001510:Bed Rest / Q000523:psychology; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D008603:Mental Health; D009147:Music Therapy; D011247:Pregnancy; D018566:Pregnancy, High-Risk / Q000523:psychology*; D013732:Test Anxiety Scale; D016896:Treatment Outcome