Effectiveness of Music Therapy on Blood Pressure and Anxiety Among Patients Undergoing Haemodialysis
Effectiveness of Music Therapy on Blood Pressure and Anxiety Among Patients Undergoing Haemodialysis
Effectiveness of music therapy on blood pressure and anxiety among patients undergoing haemodialysis
Abstract Introduction:- dialysis is one of the technological innovation in medicine in which patients are being reported to face psychosocial and physiological problems such as anxiety, stress and hypertension etc. To relieve these problems, music therapy has been widely used as a non-pharmacological intervention with the aim to assess the effectiveness of music therapy on blood pressure and anxiety among haemodialysis patients.
Methods:- current study using true experimental pre-test post-test design was conducted among 60 haemodialysis patients which were randomly allocated to experimental (30) and control (30) group using simple random sampling. The data was collected through sample characteristics performa, blood pressure monitoring data sheet and beck anxiety inventory. Patients in experimental group were provided with 30 minutes of music therapy using slow and calm relaxing instrumental piano music whereas in control group only usual care was given.
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