Well-loved music robustly relieves pain: a randomized, controlled trial.

PLoS One · 2014 · PMC4161415 · PMID 25211164

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failed to reach significancep = .059so close (0.05 < p ≤ 0.1)

Paired contrasts using a Bonferroni adjustment for multiple contrasts revealed that music decreased pain intensity significantly compared to both sound (p = .026) and silence (p<.001), whereas the difference between sound and silence failed to reach significance (p = .059).

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a statistical trendno p-value reported

For this aspect of the pain experience as well, it also appears that the superiority of music over sound, and of sound over silence at a statistical trend level, held regardless of conditioning.

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approached significanceno p-value reported

Neither the main effect for time nor the time by audio type interaction approached significance.

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