title: Therapeutic Use of Music and Television in Neurocritical Care: A Practice Survey.
abstract: BACKGROUND
  Although health care providers often play music via radio, or play television, to calm and soothe patients, limited research is available to guide practice.
  
  
  METHODS
  This study used a 17-item practice survey that was distributed electronically to neurocritical care society members in July 2014. Responses were collated and analyzed using SAS (Version 9.3).
  
  
  RESULTS
  There were 118 completed responses, including from 71 attending physicians, 9 resident or fellow physicians, 30 nurses, and 8 affiliate professional members. The majority of respondents sometimes or always play music (65%) and agree that music is therapeutic (70%). However, there was no clear practice pattern regarding when or why music or TV should be used as an intervention in the neurocritical care unit.
  
  
  CONCLUSIONS
  The use of music and TV is a common intervention in the neurocritical care unit but lacks a strong scientific foundation and is associated with a high practice variance.
authors.affiliation: The University of Texas Southwestern, Dallas daiwai.olson@utsouthwestern.edu.
authors.forename: DaiWai M
authors.initials: DM
authors.lastname: Olson
authors.affiliation: The University of Texas Southwestern, Dallas.
authors.forename: H Hunt
authors.initials: HH
authors.lastname: Batjer
authors.affiliation: Texas Woman's University, Denton.
authors.forename: Michael L
authors.initials: ML
authors.lastname: Zanders
authors.affiliation: The University of Texas Southwestern, Dallas.
authors.forename: Kimberly
authors.initials: K
authors.lastname: Harrison
authors.affiliation: Baylor College of Medicine, Houston.
authors.forename: Jose I
authors.initials: JI
authors.lastname: Suarez
mesh_terms: D001007:Anxiety / Q000523:psychology / Q000628:therapy; D001930:Brain Injuries / Q000534:rehabilitation / Q000628:therapy*; D003422:Critical Care / Q000379:methods* / Q000639:trends; D019317:Evidence-Based Medicine; D019538:Health Care Surveys; D006801:Humans; D008991:Monitoring, Physiologic; D009147:Music Therapy; D009422:Nervous System Diseases / Q000534:rehabilitation / Q000628:therapy*; D009462:Neurology / Q000379:methods*; D010146:Pain / Q000523:psychology; D010818:Practice Patterns, Physicians' / Q000706:statistics & numerical data*; D013690:Television; D013781:Texas
keywords: brain injury recovery; milieu therapy; music therapy