2.5. Effects of Noise and Music on Sleep and Pain
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Overall, 229 patients, caregivers and staff members completed questions on the effects of noise, and 233 on the effects of music on sleep. We found a median value of 5.5 (interquartile range = 4.5) for the effect of noise, whereas the effect of music’s median value was 7.0 (interquartile range = 3.5). This indicated that the entire cohort rated the effect of music on sleep as greater than the effect of noise on sleep, In comparing the effects between the three groups, we found median values (interquartile range) for the effect of noise on sleep to be 4.33 (5.04) for patients, 5.50 (5.50) for caregivers and 6.00 (4.00) for staff members (Overall, 115 patients and caregivers completed the questions on the effects of noise and 114 on the effects of music on pain. The effect of noise median value was 3.0 (interquartile range = 5.0), whereas the effect of music median value was 4.7 (interquartile range = 3.5) (See 