title: Effect of music on pain, anxiety, and patient satisfaction in patients who present to the emergency department in Turkey.
abstract: OBJECTIVE
  The objective of this study is to evaluate the effect of music therapy on pain, anxiety, and patient satisfaction in patients who present to the emergency department in Turkey.
  
  
  METHODS
  This controlled and experimental study was conducted in the emergency department of a hospital in Turkey between July and October 2012. The study sample consisted of 200 patients in total, 100 forming the intervention group and 100 being the control group, who fell under color code green in the triage system and came with complaints of pain due to nausea/vomiting and diarrhea, abdominal pain, headaches, and joint pain. A questionnaire, the State Anxiety Scale, and the Visual Analog Scale to measure the patients' level of pain were used in the study. The questionnaires of the intervention group were administered after playing the music.
  
  
  RESULTS
  When the intervention and control groups were compared, it was observed that there was a significant decrease in the VASP and STAI-S scores in favor of the intervention group. It was observed that 21.0% of the patients in the intervention group were very pleased to hear music in the emergency department, 58% of them were moderately or at least a little pleased, and 21.0% were not pleased at all.
  
  
  CONCLUSIONS
  The results showed that music therapy had a positive effect in terms of reducing the severity of pain and the level of anxiety in patients, that only a very small portion of the patients were not pleased to listen to music in the emergency department.
authors.affiliation: Department of Nursing, Faculty of Health Sciences, Division of Medical Nursing, Gaziantep University, Gaziantep, Turkey.
authors.forename: Serap
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Parlar Kilic
authors.forename: Gulendam
authors.initials: G
authors.lastname: Karadag
authors.forename: Serpil
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Oyucu
authors.forename: Ozlem
authors.initials: O
authors.lastname: Kale
authors.forename: Suat
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Zengin
authors.forename: Emine
authors.initials: E
authors.lastname: Ozdemir
authors.forename: Esra Akin
authors.initials: EA
authors.lastname: Korhan
mesh_terms: D000293:Adolescent; D000328:Adult; D001007:Anxiety / Q000628:therapy*; D004636:Emergency Service, Hospital; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D009147:Music Therapy; D059408:Pain Management / Q000379:methods*; D017060:Patient Satisfaction; D014421:Turkey; D055815:Young Adult
keywords: anxiety; emergency department; music therapy; pain; patient satisfaction