ABSTRACT
The purpose of this study is to explore whether the application of prenatal education music can reduce anxious emotions experienced by pregnant women. The subjective anxiety scale, and an outpatient clinic satisfaction survey, coupled with objective physiological responses and placental function monitoring results were used to carry out data collection and compilation. The situation of receiving medical treatment was also statistically analyzed. In this study, data were collected through the outpatient clinics of a hospital. The data collection time period was from March 1, 2017 to December 31, 2017, a total of 10 months. The cases were accepted at an obstetrics and gynecology hospital in Central Taiwan. During the case acceptance period, the pregnant women who had undergone ten complete prenatal checkups were included as research participants. A total of 100 valid samples were completed. Among them, 50 pregnant women agreed to listen to prenatal education music (experimental group); the other 50 pregnant women did not listen to prenatal education music (control group). Results in the anxiety scale show the experimental group that listened to prenatal education music had a lower score (36.64 points) than that of the control group which did not listen to prenatal education music (39.14 points). The results in the outpatient clinic satisfaction survey clearly show that letting the pregnant women listen to prenatal education music helped reduce their degree of dissatisfaction while waiting. Their positive feelings towards receiving medical treatment at the hospital were also enhanced. As for the measurement of objective physiological responses including vital signs such as the pregnant women's heart rate, systolic blood pressure, diastolic blood pressure and mean blood pressure, as well as placental function tests, both groups showed no significant differences. The research results show that prenatal education music can serve as a way for pregnant women to reduce anxiety while positively improving the degree of satisfaction for medical treatment received.
