Effect of Auditory Distractions on Pediatric Postoperative Pain

Professor (Head of the Departmant of Nursing)

The aim of the study was to determine the effect of different auditorial methods of attention distraction on postoperative pain and anxiety in children. Three group pre and post-test randomized clinical trial.The data were collected using the Socio-demographic Data Form for Child and Parent, Visual Analogue Scale, Wong-Baker Faces Pain Scale and State-Trait Anxiety Inventory for Children. The investigators found that listening to classical music, Turkish music and audiobook methods played an effective role in decreasing postoperative pain and anxiety state in children in the three groups in the study. As a result, investigators showed that different auditorial attention distraction methods had a decreasing effect on postoperative pain and anxiety in children.

Inclusion Criteria:

• patients aged between 7-14 years old,
• staying in a single room,
• those for whom a surgical procedure for inguinal or abdominal region had been planned,
• in the first hour of postoperative period,
• free of any problem that prevents expression of the post-operative pain,
• free of hearing problems,
• having undergone same analgesia protocol; were included in the study.

Exclusion Criteria:

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