Using scent and music in a waiting room to positively influence patients’ healthcare experience – A field experiment in a plastic surgery practice – Master Thesis
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بررسی تاثیر موسیقی درمانی در محیط انتظار قبل از اعمال جراحی مختلف بر اضطراب و درد بیماران
Introduction: Millions of patients have been undergoing surgery around the world annually. Surgery is always a great experience for both the patient and his family and anxiety is a natural reaction to it. Preoperational anxiety stimulates the sympathetic, parasympathetic, and endocrine systems causing an increase in the heart rate, blood pressure, and heart excitability and arrhythmia. It cause...
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