Music therapy showed no clear benefit after endometriosis cyst surgery
In young patients who had never given birth and wanted future fertility, music therapy did not significantly improve postoperative pain or anxiety compared with the trial's control group.
Based on the published abstract. The full paper may contain additional methods, results and limitations.
The 30-second takeaway
For young patients with future fertility intentions undergoing ovarian cyst surgery for endometriosis, music therapy did not produce statistically significant improvements in postoperative pain or anxiety compared with control. Although the authors suggest it might be an additional intervention, the reported results do not demonstrate benefit in this specific surgical population.
The abstract supplies p-values without effect sizes or confidence intervals and does not describe the music schedule or control care. Nonsignificant comparisons cannot establish that the treatments were equivalent.
What researchers found
Music therapy versus control
Pain ratings at 6 hours and postoperative days 1, 3 and 7.
A specific patient group
Participants were young, had never given birth and wanted future fertility. The study concerned music around surgery for ovarian cysts associated with endometriosis; its results do not directly address other operations or patient groups.
Anxiety results also remained unclear
Anxiety questionnaire scores and severity categories did not differ significantly between groups at the reported postoperative assessments. Without estimates of the differences and their uncertainty, the abstract cannot show how much benefit or worsening remained plausible.
The original publication
The effects of music therapy on pain and anxiety in young nulliparous patients undergoing laparoscopic cystectomy for endometriosis: a randomized controlled trial.
Li W, Feng H, Yang X et al.
J Psychosom Obstet Gynaecol · 2025
- PubMed ID
- 40534482
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