TY - JOUR
T1 - Playing Music for Hospitalized Patients Enhances Mood and Reduces Perceptions of Pain
AU - Xue, Feifei
AU - Landis, Regina
AU - Wright, Scott M.
N1 - Funding Information:
From the Divisions of Hospital Medicine and General Internal Medicine, Johns Hopkins Bayview Medical Center, Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, Baltimore, Maryland. Correspondence to Dr Scott Wright, Johns Hopkins Bayview Medical Center, Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, 5200 Eastern Ave, MFL Bldg Center Tower, 2nd floor GIM Suite, Baltimore, MD 21224. E-mail: swright@jhmi.edu. To purchase a single copy of this article, visit sma.org/smj-home. To purchase larger reprint quantities, please contact Reprintsolutions@wolterskluwer.com. This study was supported by the Johns Hopkins Osler Center for Clinical Excellence. S.W. is the Anne Gaines and G. Thomas Miller Professor of Medicine and is supported through the Johns Hopkins Center for Innovative Medicine. The remaining authors did not report any financial relationships or conflicts of interest. Accepted January 30, 2018. Copyright © 2018 by The Southern Medical Association 0038-4348/0–2000/111-460 DOI: 10.14423/SMJ.0000000000000841
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© 2018 Lippincott Williams & Wilkins.
PY - 2018/8/1
Y1 - 2018/8/1
N2 - Objectives For most people, music serves as a calming influence or as a pleasurable stimulus that lifts their spirits. In an attempt to both distract and cheer up hospitalized patients, we designed a brief intervention that would bring music to their hospital rooms in attempt to enhance their mood and minimize their awareness of pain. Methods In this prospective study of adult patients on the general medicine ward at Johns Hopkins Hospital, we assessed the impact of self-selected music delivery on patients' mood and their perception of pain. Patients' mood and pain were assessed using the modified Hospital Anxiety and Depression Scale and the Verbal Numerical Rating Scale, a validated 10-point Likert pain scale. Results Of the 151 patients studied, their mean age was 57 years, 57% were women, and 65% were white. Ninety-seven percent of patients described listening to music regularly at home, but only 28% of patients reported that they had listened to any music since being in the hospital (P < 0.0001). The patients' modified Hospital Anxiety and Depression Scale score and pain score were decreased significantly (-4.99, standard error 0.45, P < 0.0001, and -0.72, standard error 1.51, P < 0.0001, respectively) after listening to a couple of their favorite songs. Conclusions This study demonstrates that bringing music to hospitalized patients and encouraging them to listen to their favorite songs are genuinely appreciated. If this intervention can enhance moods and reduce pain for patients in the hospital, then directing resources to make it sustainable may be justified.
AB - Objectives For most people, music serves as a calming influence or as a pleasurable stimulus that lifts their spirits. In an attempt to both distract and cheer up hospitalized patients, we designed a brief intervention that would bring music to their hospital rooms in attempt to enhance their mood and minimize their awareness of pain. Methods In this prospective study of adult patients on the general medicine ward at Johns Hopkins Hospital, we assessed the impact of self-selected music delivery on patients' mood and their perception of pain. Patients' mood and pain were assessed using the modified Hospital Anxiety and Depression Scale and the Verbal Numerical Rating Scale, a validated 10-point Likert pain scale. Results Of the 151 patients studied, their mean age was 57 years, 57% were women, and 65% were white. Ninety-seven percent of patients described listening to music regularly at home, but only 28% of patients reported that they had listened to any music since being in the hospital (P < 0.0001). The patients' modified Hospital Anxiety and Depression Scale score and pain score were decreased significantly (-4.99, standard error 0.45, P < 0.0001, and -0.72, standard error 1.51, P < 0.0001, respectively) after listening to a couple of their favorite songs. Conclusions This study demonstrates that bringing music to hospitalized patients and encouraging them to listen to their favorite songs are genuinely appreciated. If this intervention can enhance moods and reduce pain for patients in the hospital, then directing resources to make it sustainable may be justified.
KW - hospitalization
KW - music
KW - patient satisfaction
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U2 - 10.14423/SMJ.0000000000000841
DO - 10.14423/SMJ.0000000000000841
M3 - Article
C2 - 30075469
AN - SCOPUS:85051077499
SN - 0038-4348
VL - 111
SP - 460
EP - 464
JO - Southern medical journal
JF - Southern medical journal
IS - 8
ER -