MUSIC THERAPY IN ACUTE AND CHRONIC PAIN MANAGEMENT : A

LITERATURE REVIEW
Satria Eureka N/UNAIR/eur3ka.worldz@gmail.com/Febria
F.Effendy/UNAIR/febria.mhakarya@gmail.com/Khofi Hadidi/UNAIR/khofihadidi@ymail.com

Purpose : This literare review explain music theraphy as non-pharmacological therapy medical
team will take action which will reduce the reception and perception of pain.
Methodes :
The articles were taken from google scholar, PubMed, MEDLINE, and CINAHL. Data searches
using key words in the English language are: "music therapy", "pain", "pain management
nursing", "chronic desease". Journal article is limited to the year, ie in 2010-2014 and obtained
28 articles. Journal articles obtained, then reviewed in accordance with the inclusion criteria.
Finally 13 articles that match and then identified and presented in tabular form
Result :
Research that has been explored in this article most of which is around 13 articles using the
experimental group and the control group to determine the effect and effectiveness in dealing
with pain, both acute pain and chronic pain pain. Research that does not use a control group is a
qualitative research, in which respondents were interviewed about the experience in dealing with
pain while diruang ICU or at any time after having surgery. Based on the results of the
qualitative research articles showed that respondents largely use music therapy to overcome the
pain felt and music therapy can effectively reduce the perceived pain intensity. In the true
quantitative experimental study using a control group that did not receive treatment in the form
of music therapy altogether and just get a nursing interventions as needed. In the experimental
group / treatment, respondents receive music therapy when it starts to feel pain. As it did before
surgery, during wait until done intravitreal injection, during childbirth and postpartum, during
carried burn dressings, prior to laparoscopic surgery, patients with spinal surgery, as well as
efforts to relieve the pain in palliative therapy. The experimental study of the get result that
music therapy can reduce pain intensity or scale well for the pain that is felt in acute or chronic.
In other words, music therapy is very effective pain management used to lower or reduce pain be
perceived by respondents.
 The results showed that the treatment in the form of music therapy in overcoming the
pain both acute and chronic pain proved to be effective of three qualitative research on the article
found that the respondents admitted to using music therapy to reduce the pain. Besides pain is
also a major selection and was included in the top four which respondents choose to
management pain compared with the efforts of other distractions such as mild massage. In the 12
other articles were an experiment, also show significant results that the pain can reduce the pain
felt by the respondent. In a study of patients with surgical spinal measurements of blood pressure
and cortisol in urine showed a significant difference in which the blood pressure in patients with
music therapy was lower than the control group, while for the measurement of cortisol in urine is
not give difference significantly between the experimental group and the control group.
Conclusion :
Literature review on the results of 13 research articles that have been reviewed show that music
therapy can be used as a nursing intervention to reduce pain between acute pain and chronic
pain. It can be applied in the hospital and can be continued at home in addition pharmacological
theraphy as an effective method of pain management
Keyword: music theraphy, pain, pain management, chronic disease