THE EFFECT OF LISTENING MUSIC IN REDUCTION OF POSTOPERATIVE PAIN: SYSTEMATIC ANALYSIS

It was aimed to examine the studies investigating the effect of listening to music in reducing pain in the postoperative period. The research was conducted on the effect of listening to music in reducing postoperative pain, published between 20.05.2019 and 01.07.2019, in quasi-experimental or experimental design, dealing with adult patient sample, including operations performed under general/regional anesthesia, accessed to a full-text article, published in Turkish and English articles are included. Literature search on the subject was carried out between 20.05.2019 and 01.07.2019 using Cochrane Library, Turkey Citation Index, Ebscohost ASC (Ulakbim, Medline) databases. Key words in the screening were determined as “music, surgery, postoperative pain”. The titles and abstracts of the accessed articles were examined and their suitability for the study was checked. In order to obtain the desired data from the articles suitable for the research, a data collection form in accordance with the PRISMA 2020 checklist was prepared by the researchers and the studies were evaluated. In the study, a total of 1998 articles were reached as a result of the search. It was determined that 15 articles were suitable for inclusion in the study. A total of 1780 patients participated in these 15 studies. In 85% of the studies, it was concluded that listening to music significantly reduced pain in patients (p<0.05). In line with these results, attempts to listen to music gave positive results and were effective in patients' perception of less pain.