Nurse Implementation of Music for Pain Relief in the Inpatient Setting.

Background: The music for pain relief study tested an innovative broad hypothesis that nurses can effectively integrate the use of music as an option for pain and anxiety management among their patients. The literature supports music for pain relief as an established best practice, and implementing...

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Publicado en:Nursing Research & Practice Vol. 2026; pp. 1 - 13
Autores principales: Watson, Heather, Johnson, Alexandra, Hsu, Yea-Jen, Zhou, Zehui, Scala, Elizabeth, Devlin, Kerry, Russell, Lauren E., Kang, Kyurim, Pandian, Vinciya, Pantelyat, Alexander, Webster, Jane Sumergrade, Marsteller, Jill A., Negi, Shweta
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Publicado: Wiley-Blackwell 8/29/2026
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          Watson, Heather
          Johnson, Alexandra
          Hsu, Yea-Jen
          Zhou, Zehui
          Scala, Elizabeth
          Devlin, Kerry
          Russell, Lauren E.
          Kang, Kyurim
          Pandian, Vinciya
          Pantelyat, Alexander
          Webster, Jane Sumergrade
          Marsteller, Jill A.
          Negi, Shweta
        affil: Department of Nursing, Center for Nursing Inquiry,, Johns Hopkins Hospital,, 600 N. Wolfe Street, Baltimore 21287,, Maryland, USA, jhu.edu
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          Music Therapy
          Pain Management
          Hospitalization
          Anticipatory Anxiety Prevention and Control
          Patient Bedside
          Patient Centered Care
          Nursing Practice
          Pain, Procedural Prevention and Control
          Clinical Competence
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          Multidisciplinary Care Team
          Research Nurses
          Inpatients
          Pediatric Nursing
          Program Implementation
          Nurse-Patient Relations
          Electronic Health Records
          Motivation
          Pretest-Posttest Design
          Descriptive Statistics
          Nurse Attitudes
          Implementation Science
          Patient Advocacy
          Coping
          Patient Attitudes
          Academic Medical Centers
          Male
          Female
          Adult
          Middle Age
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          Pilot Studies
          Wilcoxon Rank Sum Test
          Logistic Regression
          Data Analysis Software
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          Pain, Procedural Nursing
          Anticipatory Anxiety Nursing
          Adult: 19-44 years
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      ab: Background: The music for pain relief study tested an innovative broad hypothesis that nurses can effectively integrate the use of music as an option for pain and anxiety management among their patients. The literature supports music for pain relief as an established best practice, and implementing music listening at the bedside supports patient‐centered care and autonomous nursing practice. Methods: Guided by the Practical, Robust Implementation, and Sustainability Model (PRISM), a multidisciplinary research team comprised of nurse researchers, a patient/family co‐investigator, and implementation scientists engaged nurses to implement the protocol on four inpatient units—three adult and one pediatric—from July 2021 to December 2021. Implementation strategies included nurse champions, in‐person training, a unit research binder, and Spotify music streaming accounts with pre‐established playlists. Reach, effectiveness, adoption, implementation, and maintenance (RE‐AIM) using data from the electronic health record (EHR), a bedside form, and a pre–post survey of nurse motivation to implement was assessed. Results: EHR data showed improvement in the monthly average documented music provision from 9 sessions preintervention to 16 postintervention and 22 in the sustainment phase. Bedside forms (n = 32) revealed nurses offered recorded music to alleviate anxiety (32%), boredom (27%), pain (22%), or procedural distraction (19%). Patients averaged 78 min of music listening, most typically on provided tablets (78%). Patients selected the genre in 46% of plays. Nurse perceptions towards the intervention significantly improved with respect to having accomplished something worthwhile. Pain scores captured before and after music listening did not show statistically significant differences. Conclusions: Nurses successfully integrated the evidence‐based practice of offering recorded music to their patients during routine care, potentially facilitating pain and anxiety relief. The nurse's attitudes toward offering music showed they felt it was worthwhile. Implementation during the COVID‐19 pandemic may have increased data collection fatigue, which limited postimplementation data collection.
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