Examination of the Effect of Music Upon the Postoperative Pain Management in Pediatric Patients Who Are Hospitalized in the Orthopedics Service; [Ortopedi Servisinde Yatan Çocuk Hastalarda Ameliyat Sonrası Ağrı Yönetiminde Müziğin Etkisinin İncelenmesi]
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2019
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Background: Children who have had orthopedic surgery are suffer from severe pain. In order to cope with this pain, music is a recommended method. A study which researches the effect of music upon the postoperative pain in pediatric patients could not be reached in Turkey. Objectives: The aim of this study was to examine the effects of music upon the postoperative pain in pediatric patients in the age group of 7-12, who had undergone an orthopedic surgery. Methods: The research was designed as a semi-experimental. The study was conducted between June and October 2011 at the orthopedic and traumatology service of a university hospital. The sample of the study consisted of 60 children aged 7-12 years. The classical music was listened to the children who were in experimental group after the surgery. Description form of children who had undergone an orthopedic surgery and their families, which was prepared by the researcher, and Visual Analog Scale was used for the collection of the data. As well as the percentage and chi-square tests, the significance test (t test) was used for the difference between two averages in independent groups for the analysing the data. Results: There is a similarity between the experimental and control group, in terms of the distribution of variables regarding their age, gender, type of surgery, whether the patient has had previous surgery, the first postoperative analgesic time and type of analgesic drug, and the difference between two groups was found to be statistically insignificant (p > .05). According to the results obtained from the study, it was determined that the pain scores of children in the experimental group who had undergone a surgery were significantly lower within the first 6 hours compared to the children in the control group (p < .05), there was no statistical difference between the pain scores of pediatric patients in the experimental and control groups within the first 12 and 24 hours (p > .05). Conclusion: Music was suggested to be included in nursing practices as an non-pharmacological nursing intervention, due to its positive effect within the first 6 hours during the postoperative period. © 2019, Dokuz Eylul University. All rights reserved.