This article justifies the importance of using music as a way to relieve or lessen stress and anxiety. Defining Music Therapy . This book defines music, therapy, music therapy, and levels of music therapy. It also provides examples from music therapy literature, one of which is Music In Medicine. This author has found that music reduces preoperative anxiety and decreases the amount of medication needed for anesthesia.
Music helps awaken postoperative patients and reduces pain.
The effect of music and desensitization on preoperative anxiety in children. A study was done to examine the use of music on children. Music was used to inform children about what was going to happen to them before surgery. This use of music reduced the preoperative anxiety in children. This study involved colorectal surgery patients.