PURPOSE: The purpose of this study was to examine the effects of music therapy on state anxiety and pain among patients undergoing burn dressing changes. METHOD: A convenience sample of 32 adult burn patients who were eligible and provided consent were included in the study which was a quasi-experimental study of a nonequivalent control group pretest-posttest design. Fifteen patients in the control group received the routine burn dressing changes but 17 patients in the experimental group listened to self-selected music through headphones connected to a CD player during burn dressing changes for three days. All subjects of the music group chose the type of music that would relax them. Before and after burn dressing changes, subjects completed the State Anxiety Inventory and self-report of pain scores. RESULT: There was a significant reduction in state anxiety before and after burn dressing changes in those who received music therapy in contrast to those who did not receive music therapy. The music group reported lower pain scores before and after burn dressing changes than did the non-music group. CONCLUSION: These findings indicate that music therapy composed of self-selected music is a valuable intervention for the treatment of pain and anxiety in patients undergoing burn dressing changes.
Pain Measurement ; Pain/etiology/*prevention & control ; *Music Therapy ; Middle Aged ; Male ; Humans ; Female ; Burns/*nursing ; *Bandages ; Anxiety/*etiology/prevention & control ; Adult

PURPOSE: The purpose of this study was to determine the effects of music therpy on anxiety and depression in patients undergoing hemodialysis. METHOD: The study was designed using a nonequivalent control group pretest-posttest design. The subjects consisted of 36 patients (Experimental group: 18, Control group: 18) who received hemodialysis in three hospitals located in Seoul. The measures were a Music Preference Questionnaire (MPQ), anxiety measurement, and depression measurement. Data was collected from December 26, 2004 to April 2, 2005 through questionnaires. The collected data was analyzed by the SPSS 10.0 program. RESULT: The first hypothesis that patients undergoing hemodialysis who received music therapy would have less anxiety than patients undergoing hemodialysis who did not receive music therapy was supported (F=8.05, p=.008). The second hypothesis that patient undergoing hemodialysis who received music therapy would have less depression than patients undergoing hemodialysis who did not receive music therapy was supported(F=11.86, p=.002). CONCLUSION: The results of this study suggest that music therapy may be applied as a method of nursing intervention contributing to the improvement of quality life by reducing their anxiety and depression of patients undergoing hemodialysis.
Adult ; Anxiety/etiology/*prevention & control ; Depression/etiology/*prevention & control ; Female ; Humans ; Male ; Middle Aged ; Music Therapy/*methods ; Quality of Life ; Questionnaires ; Relaxation Therapy ; Renal Dialysis/*psychology

Anxiety ; etiology ; prevention & control ; Autism Spectrum Disorder ; complications ; therapy ; Caregivers ; psychology ; Child ; Coronavirus Infections ; complications ; Humans ; Pandemics ; Pneumonia, Viral ; complications ; Stress, Psychological ; prevention & control

PURPOSE: This study aims to investigate two different distraction methods, distraction cards and kaleidoscope, on pain and anxiety relief of children during phlebotomy. METHODS: This study is a prospective, randomized and controlled trial. The sample consisted of 7-11 year-old children who required blood tests. Children were randomized into three groups: the distraction cards group, the kaleidoscope group, and the control group. Data were obtained by interviewing the children with their parents and the observer before and after the procedure. The pain levels of the children were assessed by the parent and observer reports as well as self report using the Wong Baker FACES Pain Rating Scale. The anxiety levels of children were assessed by parent and observer reports using Children Fear Scale. RESULTS: One hundred and eighty-eight children (mean age, 8.8 +/- 1.5 years) were included. The pain levels of children showed significant differences among the groups (p = .005). Both the distraction card group (2.41 +/- 2.49) and the kaleidoscope group (3.10 +/- 2.16) had lower pain levels than the control group did (4.44 +/- 3.64). The distraction card group had the lowest pain levels (2.41 +/- 2.49) among all groups. The procedural anxiety levels of children were significantly different among the groups (p = <.001). Both the distraction card group (1.10 +/- 1.20) and the kaleidoscope group (1.61 +/- 1.12) had lower anxiety levels than the control group did (2.41 +/- 1.30). The distraction card group had the lowest anxiety levels (p = <.001). CONCLUSION: The distraction cards were the most effective method for pain and anxiety relief of children during phlebotomy. Also the distraction method with kaleidoscope was an effective method for pain and anxiety relief during phlebotomy in children.
Anxiety/etiology/*prevention & control/psychology ; *Attention ; Child ; Female ; Humans ; Male ; Pain/etiology/*prevention & control/psychology ; Pain Management/instrumentation/*methods ; Parents/psychology ; Phlebotomy/*adverse effects/psychology ; Prospective Studies ; Questionnaires ; Treatment Outcome

In order to fully understand the anxiety level of the patients who will have ultrasound-guided puncture biopsy, and the survey results will guide the future clinical care to reduce the anxiety score of the patients, and to im-prove the satisfaction of them, which reflects the quality of care, we used Zung Self-rating Anxiety Scale (SAS) to investigate outpatients who will have ultrasound-guided puncture biopsy in a upper first-class hospital by convenience sampling way. The results showed that the SAS standard score of the patients was higher than the Chinese normal population's, and there is significant difference between the patients and the normal population's score (t = 47.12, P < 0.001). So for reducing the patients' anxiety level we should give health education and care intervention to the patients before the operation. This reflects the Patient-centered Culture and Excellent-quality Care in China.
Adolescent ; Adult ; Aged ; Anxiety ; etiology ; prevention & control ; Biopsy, Needle ; methods ; psychology ; Breast Neoplasms ; diagnostic imaging ; pathology ; Female ; Humans ; Male ; Middle Aged ; Patient Education as Topic ; Patient Satisfaction ; Surveys and Questionnaires ; Thyroid Neoplasms ; diagnostic imaging ; pathology ; Ultrasonography ; Young Adult

OBJECTIVETo observe the long-term changes in anxiety-like behavior and tyrosine hydroxylase (TH) expression in the substantia nigra (SN) after hypoxic-ischemic brain damage (HIBD) in a neonatal rat model and to further explore the relationship between dopamine (DA) level and long-term anxiety-like behavior using the DA receptor (DAR) antagonist.

METHODSSeven-day-old (P7) neonatal Sprague-Dawley (SD) rats were randomized into normal control, sham-operated, HIBD and HIBD+DAR antagonist groups. HIBD model was prepared by ligating the right common carotid artery and 8% hypoxia exposure. The rats in the sham-operated group were sham-operated and were not subjected to right common carotid artery ligation and hypoxia exposure. The DAR antagonist was injected intraperitoneally before and after inducing HIBD. The same amount of normal saline was given to the other three groups as a control. Anxiety-like behavior was evaluated by elevated plus maze test, and TH expression in the SN was measured by immunohistochemistry on P14, P21, and P28.

RESULTSOn P21 and P28, the time spent in the open arms and the percentage of open arms entries in the HIBD group were significantly increased compared with those in the normal control, sham-operated and HIBD+DAR antagonist groups (P<0.05); in addition, the HIBD+DAR antagonist group showed a significantly longer time spent in the open arms than the normal control group (P<0.05). On P14, P21, and P28, TH expression in the HIBD and HIBD+DAR antagonist groups was significantly lower than that in the normal control and sham-operated groups, and TH level in the HIBD group was significantly lower than that in the HIBD+DAR antagonist group (P<0.05).

CONCLUSIONSDAR antagonist allows the restoration of anxiety-like behavior and alleviates the damage to dopaminergic neurons in SD rats after HIBD.

Animals ; Animals, Newborn ; Anxiety ; etiology ; prevention & control ; Dopamine Antagonists ; therapeutic use ; Hypoxia-Ischemia, Brain ; complications ; Maze Learning ; Rats ; Rats, Sprague-Dawley ; Receptors, Dopamine ; physiology ; Substantia Nigra ; enzymology ; Tyrosine 3-Monooxygenase ; analysis