Effects of music intervention with nursing presence and recorded music on psycho-physiological indices of cancer patient caregivers
Lai HL, Li YM, Lee LH
Journal of clinical nursing · 42 citations
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How it was studied
- Design
- Randomized controlled trial (indexed by PubMed)
- Studied in
- People
- Main outcome
- Health markers and function
Who paid for it
- Funding
- Funding not disclosed
Publication
- Published
- 2011-11-18 · J Clin Nurs · vol. 21 · issue 5-6 · pp. 745–756
- Publisher
- Wiley
- Cited
- 79 citations · more than 88% of similar papers · 2.5× the field average
- References
- 47 works
- Access
- Paywalled
- Research areas
- Music Therapy and Health · Intensive Care Unit Cognitive Disorders · Art Therapy and Mental Health
- Keywords
- Music therapy, Anxiety, Intervention (counseling), Medicine, Psychological intervention, Nursing, Nursing Interventions Classification, Crossover study, Physical therapy, Psychiatry, Placebo, Alternative medicine
- MeSH
- humans, neoplasms, treatment outcome, music therapy, risk assessment, statistics, nonparametric, cross-over studies, depression, stress, psychological, anxiety, nurse's role, sleep, age factors, sex factors, reference values, rest, music, adult, aged, aged, 80 and over, middle aged, caregivers, female, vital signs
3 authors
From TW, US
- Hui‐Ling Lai · correspondingTzu Chi University; Buddhist Tzu Chi General Hospital; Buddhist Tzu Chi Medical Foundation
- Yin‐Ming LiTzu Chi University; Buddhist Tzu Chi General Hospital; Buddhist Tzu Chi Medical Foundation
- Li‐Hua LeeTzu Chi University; Buddhist Tzu Chi General Hospital; Buddhist Tzu Chi Medical Foundation
Abstract
Aims and objectives
To compare the effects of music intervention with nursing presence and recorded music on blood volume pulse amplitude, the low/high frequency ratio component of heart rate variability, depression, anxiety and sleep quality in cancer patient caregivers; to compare the participants evaluation of these two forms of musical intervention.
Background
Presence is one of the activities of caring. However, little is known about the effect of music intervention with nursing presence on psycho-physiological indices.
Design
Randomised crossover controlled trial.
Method
Thirty-four female participants were randomly assigned to a music intervention with nursing presence/recorded music sequence or recorded music/music intervention with nursing presence sequence. Each intervention lasted 30 minutes and was held at the participant's home. The music intervention with nursing presence consisted of an erhu and recorder performance. In the recorded music session, participants listened to prerecorded music for 30 minutes. Continuous measurements of blood volume pulse and low/high frequency ratio were taken throughout the procedure. Depression, anxiety and sleep quality were measured before and after each intervention.
Results
Both music intervention with nursing presence and recorded music interventions had beneficial effects on anxiety, depression and blood volume pulse amplitude. Significant differences between the two interventions were also observed for anxiety. Music intervention with nursing presence was more effective in lessening anxiety and on improving the ease of getting to sleep compared with recorded music (p < 0·05). All participants reported that they preferred music intervention with nursing presence to recorded music. Significant differences were found in music evaluation scores between the two interventions in terms of harmony and friendliness (p < 0·05).
Conclusions
Both music interventions were beneficial, as measured on psycho-physiological indices. The music intervention with nursing presence provided a more friendly music experience to the listeners.
Relevance to clinical practice
The findings provide evidence for nurses that the therapeutic use of music and nursing presence as a research-based nursing intervention for the welfare of caregivers.
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