The Effect of Music Therapy on Nurses

The Effect of Music Therapy on Nurses' Comfort Levels

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.

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.

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.