• Gregory Reychler, Florian Mottart, Maelle Boland, Emmanuelle Wasterlain, Thierry Pieters, Gilles Caty, and Giuseppe Liistro.
• Institut de Recherche Expérimentale et Clinique (IREC), Pôle de Pneumologie, ENT & Dermatologie, Université Catholique de Louvain, Brussels, Belgium. Service de Pneumologie Service de Médecine Physique et Réadaptation, Cliniques Universitaires Saint-Luc, Brussels, Belgium. gregory.reychler@uclouvain.be.
• Respir Care. 2015 May 1;60(5):711-7.

BackgroundPulmonary rehabilitation is a key element in the treatment of COPD. Music has been shown to have a positive effect on parameters related to a decrease in exercise tolerance. The aim of this study was to evaluate the effect of listening to ambient music on perceived exertion during a pulmonary rehabilitation session for COPD subjects.MethodsCOPD subjects randomly performed a session of pulmonary rehabilitation with or without ambient music. Perceived exertion (Borg scales), anxiety (Hospital Anxiety and Depression Scale-Anxiety Subscale), dyspnea (visual analog scale), and cardiorespiratory parameters were compared at the end of both sessions.ResultsForty-one subjects were analyzed. The characteristics of the COPD subjects were as follows: age, 70.5 ± 8.4 y; body mass index, 22.7 ± 3.9 kg/m(2); and FEV1, 38.6 ± 12.5 % predicted. Perceived exertion was not modified by ambient music, but anxiety was improved (P = .02). Dyspnea, fatigue and cardiorespiratory parameters were not influenced by music during a typical session of the pulmonary rehabilitation program.ConclusionsThis study demonstrates that perceived exertion during one pulmonary rehabilitation session was not influenced by ambient music. However, a positive effect on anxiety was observed. (ClinicalTrials.gov registration NCT01833260.).Copyright © 2015 by Daedalus Enterprises.

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