Music therapy intervention to post-operative pain for abdominal surgery Austria, Alesi Maria S.; Bacani, Aeimil Clarize D.; Barrientos, Katrina S.; Baraquia, Maria Leo Victoria G. and Batingan, Irene C. 6

Thesis (Undergraduate) Pamantasan ng Lungsod ng Maynila, 2012;College of Nursing, Bachelor of Science in Nursing 56

5

ABSTRACT: Music has been found to bring many benefits, such as lowering blood pressure, produce relaxation, ease muscle tension and aids in distraction. It brings more positive state of mind, helping to keep depression and anxiety at tolerated level. It is said to help prevent the stress response that can help keep creativity and optimism levels higher (Scott 2011). These psychological benefits music brings lead to the need of studying whether music can also use to alleviate postoperative pain. This study focuses on having music therapy as an independent nursing intervention for postoperative pain. This study aimed to determine the demographic profile in terms of age and gender, the level of pain of respondents before administration of music therapy, the level of pain of respondents after administration of music therapy and the perceived effectiveness of music therapy as an additional treatment for pain in order to get the significant difference in the perceived effectiveness of music therapy when grouped according to profile variables in terms of age and gender, the significant difference in the level of pain of the respondents before and after treatment and the significant relationship between the perceived effectiveness of music therapy and the difference in the level of pain before and after treatment. In this paper, the researchers followed a quasi-experimental research design and a Purposive sampling technique, utilizing a validated self-made survey questionnaire both in paper-and-pen and online format. A total of 30 post operative abdominal surgery patients from the Sta. Ana Hospital and Ospital ng Sampaloc Surgery Ward are selected as the respondents for this study. A number of 15 respondents are set as the experimental group and the other 15 are the control group. Only the experimental group is given music therapy while the control groupt is managed by the usual analgesics. Music therapy will be administered intermittently every 2 hours for 15 minutes for the entire 6-hour period allotted for the experiment have no significant difference. In comparison, the control group has found to have no significant difference in all of its variables and none was found to have significant difference before and after. Lastly, the measurement of the correlation among variables between pain intensity and perceived effectiveness of music therapy has been found to be moderately small correlated in terms of the ability of music to provide increased coping and its distraction abilities. Consecutively, relaxation, ability to induce sleep, produce good mood and stress reduction ability were found to have very small negative correlation. In contrast with this,the ability of music therapy to promote respiratory or breathing status and its pleasantness resulted to very small positive correlation. It is therefore concluded that music therapy has been found to reduce pain intensity, vital signs and improve wellness of post operative abdominal respondents. Music therapy has been also perceived by the respondents to be highly satisfactory. This study will permit researchers to do further studies regarding music therapy, improving specifically in the process of data gathering. In the light of the findings and conclusions of this study, the researchers recommend implementing music therapy in the surgery ward of hospitals.

5