Purpose:The purpose of this investigation was to find the anxiety levels, physical data and subjective perception and explore the relationship between demographic, clinical and cancer patients' variables, pre and post-procedure during a positron emission tomography/computed tomography PET-CT scan. Methods:The sample was distributed in two groups (experimental and control group), 54 subjects in each group, with clinical indication for performing an 18F-2fluoro-2-deoxy-D-glucose [18F]FDG-PET/CT scan. The study was conducted using an ad hoc questionnaire and the standardized State-Trait Anxiety Inventory (STAI) The pre-procedure questionnaire focused on demographic information, oncological situation, subjective perception of anxiety and STAI test. The post-procedure questionnaire included the subjective perception anxiety and STAI test after the procedure. Prior to the PET-CT, most of participants do not exhibited physical symptoms.Results: Regarding the effectiveness of the intervention, we found a significant effect on the level of post-intervention subjective anxiety, controlling for the effect of pre-intervention anxiety levels (F = 496.599; p = 0.000; η 2 partial = 0.82). Statistically significant differences were found between the control group and the music group. With respect to the effectiveness of the music on the post-intervention STAI state anxiety score we found significant differences between the intervention group and controls (F = 416.408; p = 0.000; η 2 partial = 0.79). The music group (11.72) presented lower corrected mean scores on the post-intervention STAI state anxiety scale, showing statistically significant differences with the control group. Conclusions:In conclusion, our work shows that relaxing meditative music can be used as a relaxation and anxiolytic mechanism as an integral multimodal part in patients during the uptake phase before PET-CT studies.

Objetive: The purpose of this investigation was to find the anxiety levels, physical data and subjetive perception and explore the relationship between demographic, clinical and cancer patients' variables, pre and post-procedure during a PET/CT scan. Patients and methods:The sample was distributed in five groups: 54 in one of the four experimental groups and 54 inthe control group (oral information, witten information, music, meditation induction). The study was conducted using an ad hoc questionnaire and the standardized State-Trait Anxiety Inventory (STAI). Results:We found a significant effect on the level of postintervention subjective anxiety, controlling for the effect of pre-intervention anxiety levels. With respect to the effectiveness of music and meditation induction on the postintervention STAI state anxiety score we found significant differences between the intervention group and controls. Conclusion:Our work shows that music and meditation induction can be used as a relaxation and anxiolytic mechanism as an integral multimodal part in patients during the uptake phase before PET-CT studies.