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World J Transplant. Apr 29, 2020; 10(4): 79-89
Published online Apr 29, 2020. doi: 10.5500/wjt.v10.i4.79
Listening to music during arteriovenous fistula surgery alleviates anxiety: A randomized single-blind clinical trial
Sanem Guler Cimen, Ebru Oğuz, Ayse Gokcen Gundogmus, Sertac Cimen, Fatih Sandikci, Mehmet Deniz Ayli
Sanem Guler Cimen, Department of General Surgery, Diskapi Research and Training Hospital, Health Sciences University, Ankara 06110, Turkey
Ebru Oğuz, Mehmet Deniz Ayli, Division of Nephrology, Department of Internal Medicine, Diskapi Research and Training Hospital, Health Sciences University, Ankara 06110, Turkey
Ayse Gokcen Gundogmus, Department of Psychiatry, Diskapi Research and Traning Hospital, Health Sciences University, Ankara 06110, Turkey
Sertac Cimen, Fatih Sandikci, Department of Urology, Diskapi Research and Traning Hospital, Health Sciences University, Ankara 06110, Turkey
Author contributions: Cimen SG and Cimen S designed the research; Cimen SG and Sandikci F performed research; Gundogmus AG contributed analytic tools; Oguz E and Cimen SG analyzed data; Ayli MD and Cimen SG wrote the paper.
Institutional review board statement: The study was reviewed and approved by the Diskapi Research and Training Hospital Ethics Committee.
Clinical trial registration statement: This study is registered at Diskapi Research and Training Hospital Clinical Trials Registry. The registration identification number is 41303261/iTK.
Informed consent statement: All study participants, or their legal guardian, provided informed written consent prior to study enrollment.
Conflict-of-interest statement: The authors of this manuscript having no conflicts of interest to disclose.
Data sharing statement: There is no additional data available.
CONSORT 2010 statement: The authors have read the CONSORT 2010 Statement, and the manuscript was prepared and revised according to the CONSORT 2010 Statement.
Open-Access: This article is an open-access article that was selected by an in-house editor and fully peer-reviewed by external reviewers. It is distributed in accordance with the Creative Commons Attribution NonCommercial (CC BY-NC 4.0) license, which permits others to distribute, remix, adapt, build upon this work non-commercially, and license their derivative works on different terms, provided the original work is properly cited and the use is non-commercial. See: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/
Corresponding author: Sanem Guler Cimen, FEBS, MD, MSc, Associate Professor, Attending Doctor, Director, Doctor, Surgeon, Department of General Surgery, Diskapi Research and Training Hospital, Health Sciences University, Guvenlik Caddesi No. 87-6, Ankara 06110, Turkey. s.cimen@dal.ca
Received: December 3, 2019
Peer-review started: December 2, 2019
First decision: February 20, 2020
Revised: March 9, 2020
Accepted: March 26, 2020
Article in press: March 26, 2020
Published online: April 29, 2020
Core Tip

Core tip: Being successful in managing patients undergoing kidney transplantation goes beyond passing on best medical advice and performing operations with cutting edge technology. It requires building rapport and informing them about the procedures awaiting, like transplantation and arteriovenous fistula creation. However, having to go through these procedures may cause anxiety and feeling powerless. One of our important duty as a physician should be to keep our patients on task and help them manage their anxiety. This article conceptualizes music therapy as an effective tool to relieve patient anxiety during fistula creation surgery by providing randomized, single-blind clinical trial data.