title: Music therapy to relieve anxiety in pregnant women on bedrest: a randomized, controlled trial.
abstract: 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.
authors.affiliation: The Mental Health Institute, the Second Xiangya Hospital of Central South University, Changsha Hunan, China. yangmin426@yahoo.com.cn
authors.forename: Min
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Yang
authors.forename: Lingjiang
authors.initials: L
authors.lastname: Li
authors.forename: Haili
authors.initials: H
authors.lastname: Zhu
authors.forename: Ivy M
authors.initials: IM
authors.lastname: Alexander
authors.forename: Shan
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Liu
authors.forename: Wei
authors.initials: W
authors.lastname: Zhou
authors.forename: Xiaohong
authors.initials: X
authors.lastname: Ren
mesh_terms: 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