Medical researchers at the University of Alberta offer more proof that music cuts children`s apparent sense of pain.
The team led by Dentistry researcher, Lisa Hartling involved her equals from the Department of Pediatrics and fellow researchers from the University of Manitoba and the United States in the research work.
The research team handled a clinical research trial of 42 kids in the age groups of 3 and 11 in January 2009 and March 2010 who came to the pediatric emergency department at the Stollery Children`s Hospital and required IVs. Most of the kids listened to music while having an IV, though some did not respond to music.
Scientists recorded the children`s distress, perceived pain levels and heart rates and satisfaction levels of parents and satisfaction levels of health-care personnel who administered the IVs to these kids.
Hartling said that she did find a difference in the children`s reported pain. The team found that the children in the music group had less pain directly after the procedure, and this finding she called as clinically important as playing music for kids during painful medical procedures would be an inexpensive and easy clinical method