Effect of Music Therapy on Post-Operative Pain Management among Abdominal Surgery Patients in a Selected Hospital of Guwahati, Assam

: Background: Music has been used since ancient times to enhance and reduce pain and suffering. Playing music for patients during or after surgery helps reduce pain and use of morphine and other sedatives, anxiolytic and analgesics. Despite advances in postoperative pain control, it is a still big challenges with prevalence for practitioner. Aim: to determine the effect of music therapy in post operative pain management among abdominal surgery patients. Methods: a true experimental research design was used to select subject 30 experimental and 30 control group by simple random sampling at Guwahati Medical College and Hospital, Assam. Pre test was conducted by visual analogue scale after obtaining consent, music therapy given 5-10 mins twice a day for 2 nd and 3 rd post-operative day in experimental group. Post-test was assessed in both group by using visual analogue scale. Result: In experimental group patients postoperative pain level was significantly lower compare with control group (4.40+_1.380 vs 5.93+_1.285). Conclusion: the study concluded that after administration of music therapy, there was a significant improvement of post operative pain management. Music therapy found to be effective for post-operative pain management among patients. pharmacological The study showed that the nurses have poor knowledge regarding nonpharmacological pain management as indicated by the mean knowledge score of 48.6% pass mark 50% and a recommended knowledge score 80% as by previous knowledge Attribution post-test level of post-operative pain among abdominal surgical patients in experimental group and control group, findings showed that in experimental group mean post-test pain score was 4.40±1.380 and in control group mean post-test pain score was 5.93±1.285 with mean difference was 1.53. The comparison was tested using unpaired t test with obtained t value (t=4.455) was statistically significant at p<0.05 level. Result revealed that music therapy was effective in reducing post-operative pain among abdominal surgical patient in experimental group as compared to control group. Music therapy has no complication, less cost effective and easy to administer to patients. The investigator found that music therapy can be as nonpharmacological intervention to reduce post-operative pain management. The study can be concluded that Music therapy found to be effective for post-operative pain management among patients.