The majority of search results focused on music therapy reducing pain or stress during dressing changes in burn patients.

Evidence Summaries

Joanna Briggs

Burns Pain (Adults): Non-Pharmacological Management. Miller, Kate [BOccTh PhD]. Kipping, Belinda [BOccTh MPhil]. Gray, Paul [MBBS PhD FANZCA FFPMANZCA]. Schug, Stephan. Munn, Zachary [PhD]. [Recommended Practices] 2014

This study reports that  generally there is a lack of high quality evidence for nonpharmacological  interventions reducing stress or pain in burn patients.

Literature search in PubMed was more specific to music therapy:

My search strategy was  (“Bandages”[Mesh] OR bandages OR biological dressings OR occlusive dressings) AND music therapy AND (pain OR stress)

Tan, Xueli, et al. “The efficacy of music therapy protocols for decreasing pain, anxiety, and muscle tension levels during burn dressing changes: a prospective randomized crossover trial.” Journal of burn care & research 31.4 (2010):590-7.

Nilsson, S, and A-CRenning. “Pain management during wound dressing in children.” Nursing standard 26.32 (2012):50-5.

Protacio, Judith. “Patient-directed music therapy as an adjunct during burn wound care.” Critical care nurse 30.2 (2010):74-6.

Cole, Linda C, and GeriLoBiondo Wood. “Music as an adjuvant therapy in control of pain and symptoms in hospitalized adults: a systematic review.” Pain management nursing 15.1 (2014):406-25.

See addititonal PubMed references by clicking on this link:

 http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/sites/myncbi/collections/public/1PQtun_Aiz3ViSsu-3u3inwQm/

Searching other databases like CINAHL and PsycINFO did not produce any new results.

See also this post in the blog:

Effectiveness of music therapy as an adjunct to pharmacological pain relief in post-op patients