Music may help lessen kids’ needle stress
(Reuters Health) – Children who listened to music while an IV needle was inserted into their arms were less stressed than kids who didn’t listen to music, in a new study from Canada.
“We were really looking to see if music could reduce the distress in children,” said Lisa Hartling, the study’s lead author from University of Alberta in Edmonton.
Aside from pain medication, other ways to help control pain in the emergency department (ED) include distractions such as audio, video, stories, imagery and concentrated breathing exercises, Hartling and her colleagues say.
Past research has shown that music significantly reduces pain and anxiety during medical procedures.
What’s more, children in the non-music group said their pain increased by about two points on a scale from 0 to 10 – with higher numbers indicating more pain. Children in the music group, in contrast, reported no increase in pain.
Healthcare providers were also more likely to say the IV insertion procedure was “very easy” in the music group than in the non-music group.
Based on the research I’ve seen, the review of the literature we’ve done and our study, music has the potential to benefit and – at worse – won’t do any harm.
SOURCE: bit.ly/12uJgQC JAMA Pediatrics, online July 16, 2013.
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