Effect of Auditory Distractions on Pediatric Postoperative Pain

The aim of the study was to determine the effect of different auditorial methods of attention distraction on postoperative pain and anxiety in children. Three group pre and post‐test randomized clinical trial.The data were collected using the Socio‐demographic Data Form for Child and Parent, Visual Analogue Scale, Wong‐Baker Faces Pain Scale and State‐Trait Anxiety Inventory for Children. The investigators found that listening to classical music, Turkish music and audiobook methods played an effective role in decreasing postoperative pain and anxiety state in children in the three groups in the study. As a result, investigators showed that different auditorial attention distraction methods had a decreasing effect on postoperative pain and anxiety in children.