The Effect of Music Therapy on Nurses

TC Erciyes University

Status: Completed

Conditions: Music Therapy

Treatments: Other: music therapy

Study type: Interventional

Funder types: Other

Identifiers

NCT05980468

05/2023

Details and patient eligibility

About

This study was planned to examine the effect of music therapy on the comfort levels of nurses. In the study, data will be collected by using Descriptive Characteristics Information Form and Nurse Comfort Scale. Whether the nurses who meet the inclusion criteria will be in the intervention or control group will be determined by simple randomization. Music intervention sessions will be applied to each participant for 5 weeks, 3 days a week, 20 minutes per session. After 5 weeks, the Nurse Comfort Scale will be applied to the participants again.

Full description

This study was planned to examine the effect of music therapy on the comfort levels of nurses. This study will be conducted as a randomized controlled experimental study. In the sample calculation, it was determined that for Power = 0.8 (beta = 0.2), alpha = 0.05 and effect size = 0.7, the sample size should be 66, 33 for the intervention group and 33 for the control group. In the study, data will be collected by using Descriptive Characteristics Information Form and Nurse Comfort Scale. Whether the nurses who meet the inclusion criteria will be in the intervention or control group will be determined by simple randomization. Music intervention sessions will be applied to each participant for 5 weeks, 3 days a week, 20 minutes per session. After 5 weeks, the Nurse Comfort Scale will be applied to the participants again. Research data will be analyzed in SPSS-25 package program.

Enrollment: 96 patients

Sex: All

Ages: 18 to 65 years old

Volunteers: Accepts Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion criteria

• Have at least one year of working experience
• Have not participated in any music therapy session before
• No hearing problems
• Absence of neurological/psychiatric disorders
• Nurses who volunteered to participate in the study will be included in the study.

Exclusion criteria

• Those who use another relaxation methods,
• Nurses who do not agree to participate in the study will not be included in the study.

Trial design

Primary purpose: Other

Allocation: Randomized

Interventional model: Parallel Assignment

Masking: None (Open label)

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96 participants in 2 patient groups

Intervention group

Experimental group

Description:

Music intervention sessions will be applied to each participant for 5 weeks, 3 days a week, 20 minutes per session. Forms will be applied at the first meeting and for five weeks.

Treatment:

Other: music therapy

Control group

No Intervention group

Description:

No application has been made. Forms will be applied at the first meeting and for five weeks.