Why the study?
Does music affect psychomotor performance in anaesthetic trainees?
Does music affect psychomotor performance in anaesthetic trainees?
Music (self-chosen, classical, or white noise) does not appear to affect the psychomotor performance of anaesthetic trainees in a laboratory setting.
Null lab finding does not support restricting music for trainees; leaves open real-world effects and needs clinical validation.
Music is frequently played in operating theatres, but may prove distracting to anaesthetists. We undertook a laboratory-based study of the effects of music on the psychomotor performance of 12 anaesthetic trainees. Using part of the computer-based PsychE psychomotor evaluation programme, we were unable to demonstrate any effect of self-chosen music, silence, white noise or classical music on their performance in these tests.
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