The effect of music on fetal well-being and anxiety levels and vital signs of pregnant women during non-stress test: Turkey sample.

FETAL heart rate; STATISTICS; STATISTICAL significance; PREGNANCY & psychology; SAMPLE size (Statistics); VITAL signs; FETAL development; GESTATIONAL age; INTERVIEWING; HEALTH outcome assessment; MANN Whitney U Test; RANDOMIZED controlled trials; FETAL movement; PHYSIOLOGICAL effects of acceleration; COMPARATIVE studies; PSYCHOLOGICAL tests; PEARSON correlation (Statistics); MATHEMATICAL variables; T-test (Statistics); HEART beat; DESCRIPTIVE statistics; MUSIC; ANXIETY; STATISTICAL sampling; SOCIODEMOGRAPHIC factors; DATA analysis; STATISTICAL correlation; DATA analysis software

To assess the effect of music on fetal well-being and anxiety levels and vital signs of pregnant women during the non-stress test. The study was a randomized controlled clinical trial. The sample comprised of 74 (37 music and 37 control group) pregnant women. In the music group, post-procedure pulse values were statistically lower than the pre-procedure values (p < 0.001). There was no difference between the groups in terms of baseline fetal heart rate, variability, fetal movement, presence and number of accelerations-decelerations, non-stress test result parameters. The number of fetal movements was statistically higher in the music group, compared to the control group (p < 0.001). The state anxiety inventory scores lower in the music group after the procedure, compared to the control group (p < 0.001). Researchers determined that music affects vital sign values, fetal movements, reduced the state and trait anxiety levels of pregnant women during the non-stress test procedure. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

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