Music and rose aromatherapy may ease anxiety before mastectomy
A randomized trial reported greater immediate anxiety improvement with music or inhaled Damask rose, but the abstract leaves the size of relief unclear.
Based on the published abstract. The full paper may contain additional methods, results and limitations.
The 30-second takeaway
Women awaiting mastectomy reported less anxiety after all types of care, with larger improvements reported after music or rose aromatherapy. The study suggests these approaches may help with immediate preoperative anxiety in this setting. It does not establish lasting relief, fewer surgical complications or a clear advantage of either approach over the other.
The abstract reports only immediate responses and provides no anxiety effect sizes or adverse-event results. The size of benefit and the interventions' safety cannot be judged from this account.
What researchers found
NVAAS preoperative anxiety scores
Music or Damask rose versus usual nursing care, measured 10 minutes after a 30-minute intervention; score differences were not reported.
How the comparison worked
Participants were recruited through convenience sampling and then randomly assigned to their groups. Researchers assessed anxiety alongside vital signs and salivary cortisol, allowing them to examine subjective anxiety and physiological responses separately.
Physiological results need careful reading
Blood oxygen saturation results were not statistically significant. Other physiological changes were reported, but the abstract does not clearly separate changes within each group from direct comparisons between the groups.
The original publication
Preoperative care through aromatherapy and music therapy: comparative study on anxiety and physiological indices in mastectomy candidates.
Samadi F, Chatroodi NA, Haghani S et al.
Support Care Cancer · 2025
- PubMed ID
- 41128780
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