Effects of music on perioperative anxiety in patients undergoing caeserean section

Arm1: Listening to music during surgery Patients listened to the type of music preferred by them during the cesarean section surgery starting from surgical incision to wound dressing was done with an over-ear headset. The music was selected by opening a playlist in the style the patient desired from a music application. It was confirmed by asking the patients that headphones were playing the music. The sound level that patients felt comfortable with was adjusted. Listening to music was not stopped during the surgery. If music was stopped during surgery, patients were asked to inform this.Patients who refused to listen to music intraoperatively or who had to remove their headphones for any reason were not included in the study. Arm 2: Isolating patients from ambient operating room noise. A group of patients wore headphones starting from the surgical incision until wound dressing was done without listening to any music. Headphones were only used to keep the patients away from the operating room noise. An anaesthesiologist performed all the interventions in the operating room. All surgeries were performed under regional anaesthesia (combined spinal- epidural anaesthesia). No sedative medication was administered to any patient.