Efficacy of music on anxiety control during PET/CT scan

Authors

  • Ana Santos Escola Superior de Tecnologia da Saúde de Lisboa, Instituto Politécnico de Lisboa, Lisboa, Portugal.
  • Ana Martins Escola Superior de Tecnologia da Saúde de Lisboa, Instituto Politécnico de Lisboa, Lisboa, Portugal.
  • Carolina Sousa Escola Superior de Tecnologia da Saúde de Lisboa, Instituto Politécnico de Lisboa, Lisboa, Portugal.
  • Lina Vieira Departamento das Ciências e Tecnologias das Radiações e Biossinais da Saúde, Escola Superior de Tecnologia da Saúde de Lisboa, Instituto Politécnico de Lisboa. Lisboa, Portugal. Centro de Investigação em Saúde e Tecnologia (H&TRC), ESTeSL – Escola Superior de Tecnologia da Saúde, Instituto Politécnico de Lisboa. Lisboa, Portugal. Grupo de Investigação em Modelação e Optimização de Sistemas Multifuncionais, ISEL – Instituto Superior de Engenharia de Lisboa, Instituto Politécnico de Lisboa. Lisboa, Portugal. Instituto de Biofísica e Engenharia Biomédica, Faculdade de Ciências da Universidade de Lisboa. Lisboa, Portugal.
  • Ana Grilo Departamento das Ciências Sociais e Humanas, Escola Superior de Tecnologia da Saúde de Lisboa, Instituto Politécnico de Lisboa. Lisboa, Portugal. Centro de Investigação em Ciência Psicológica, Faculdade de Psicologia, Universidade de Lisboa. Lisboa, Portugal.
  • Elisabete Carolino Centro de Investigação em Saúde e Tecnologia (H&TRC), ESTeSL – Escola Superior de Tecnologia da Saúde, Instituto Politécnico de Lisboa. Lisboa, Portugal. Departamento das Ciências Naturais e Exatas, Escola Superior de Tecnologia da Saúde de Lisboa, Instituto Politécnico de Lisboa. Lisboa, Portugal.
  • Maria Castro Servicio de Medicina Nuclear, Instituto Tecnológico de Servicios Sanitarios, Hospital MD Anderson Cancer Center. Madrid, España.
  • Juan Alonso Servicio de Medicina Nuclear, Hospital General Universitario Gregorio Marañon. Madrid, España. Sociedad Española de Medicina Nuclear e Imagen Molecular. Madrid, Espaã.

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.25758/set.2171

Keywords:

PET/CT with 18F-FDG, Music, Anxiety, Psychophysiological assessment, Patient satisfaction

Abstract

Introduction – The control of the anxiety of patients performing positron emission tomography-computed tomography (PET/CT) scans is quite important since this emotional reaction may interfere with the patient’s experience and can even compromise the diagnosis. Music has been used to control patients’ anxiety in several clinical settings. Objective – To verify the efficacy of listening to music in the control of patient's anxiety in PET/CT scans. Methods – Exploratory study where 22 patients were included in the control group (CG) and 23 in the experimental group (EG). Both underwent fluoride-18-labeled fluorodeoxyglucose (18F-FDG) PET/CT scan. The patients included in the EG listened to music during the image acquisition while the ones included in the CG did not. All patients answered scan experience questionnaires as well as a shortened version of the State-Trait Anxiety Inventory-State (STAI-S) questionnaire before the scan (BS) and after the scan (AS). Systolic (SBP) and diastolic (DBP) blood pressure were also measured BS and AS. Results – STAI-S values did not differ significantly between groups both BS and AS. However, from BS to AS, there was an increase in these values in the CG as opposed to a decrease in the EG. Comparing BP in the CG and EG, there were no significant differences in BS but there were significant differences in AS, being values in the EG inferior to the ones in the CG. In the EG, 91.3% of the patients reported that the music is an aid during the scan and the average utility level was 4.4 (0 to 5, 5 the maximum). Conclusions – In the current study, listening to music seems to be effective in the control of patients' anxiety during PET/CT scans, and patients were revealed to be satisfied with this technique.

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Efficacy of music on anxiety control during PET/CT scan. (2022). Saúde & Tecnologia, 19, 12-19. https://doi.org/10.25758/set.2171