NCT06953011

The Effects of Different Types of Music on Patients Undergoing Thyroid Surgery

The Effect of Preferred Music on Anxiety and Comfort Levels in Thyroidectomy Surgery: A Randomized Controlled Trial (RCT)

• Status: Completed
• Phase: N/A
• Study type: Interventional
• Enrollment: 100 (actual)
• Sponsor: Dicle University · Academic / Other
• Sex: All
• Age: 18 Years – 65 Years
• Healthy volunteers: Not accepted

Summary

This study was conducted to investigate the effect preoperative music interventions on anxiety and postoperative comfort level in patients.

Detailed description

Objective: This study was conducted to investigate the effect of preoperative music interventions on anxiety and postoperative comfort levels in patients. Design: A randomized controlled quasi-experimental design was used. Methods: This study was conducted in the general surgery clinic of a university hospital in Diyarbakır, Turkey. A total of 100 patients (47 in the intervention and 53 in the control group) participated in the study by randomization. Personal Information Form, hemodynamic parameters, and State-Trait Anxiety Inventory were used for data collection. The State part of the State-Trait Anxiety Inventory was re-administered to the intervention group after the music intervention. In the postoperative period, hemodynamic parameters of all patients in both groups were monitoredş and the Perianesthesia Comfort Questionnaire was administered. SPSS 25.0 software was used for data analysis.

Conditions

• Thyroid

Interventions

Type	Name	Description
OTHER	music application	Patients were met within 1 hour preoperatively. Vital signs, pain score, blood glucose were checked and state anxiety scale was applied. Music was played through headphones and speakers for at least 20 minutes according to the type of music preferred by the patients and the preferred way of listening to music, and the state anxiety scale was applied again. Patients' questions were answered and they were encouraged to share any concerns. Patients were prepared for surgery and transferred to the operating room. Considering the patient's recovery from anesthesia, patients were visited again the day after surgery, vital signs, pain score, blood glucose were checked and the perianesthesia comfort questionnaire (PCQ) was applied.

Timeline

• Start date: 2024-03-23
• Primary completion: 2024-09-24
• Completion: 2024-09-24
• First posted: 2025-05-01
• Last updated: 2025-05-01

Locations

1 site across 1 country: Turkey (Türkiye)