A randomised, single centre, controlled study to assess whether listening to self selected recorded music reduces the anxiety of patients undergoing their first radiotherapy treatment.

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The study is the first to investigate whether self selected music, played during the initial radiotherapy session, alters patients’ anxiety states. It uses a randomized, single centre, unblinded design with the outcome measure being the change in state-trait anxiety inventory (STAI) state anxiety score from baseline to post radiotherapy. The study sample size has adequate power to detect a clinically meaningful difference in anxiety between the two treatment arms should treatment be effective. Qualitative data collected after participants' radiotherapy treatments will also elucidate subjective experiences amongst participants receiving radiotherapy with music or standard care radiotherapy.

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