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.

Study Overview

• Status: Completed
• Conditions: Music Therapy
• Intervention / Treatment: Other: music therapy

Detailed 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.

• Study Type: Interventional
• Enrollment (Actual): 96
• Phase: Not Applicable

Contacts and Locations

• Study Contact: Name: Sevda Korkut, PhD; Phone Number: +90 352 207 66 66; Email: skorkut@erciyes.edu.tr

Study Locations

• Turkey
  • Kayseri
    • Talas, Kayseri, Turkey, 0(553) 310 49 51
      • Sevda Korkut

Participation Criteria

Eligibility Criteria

• Ages Eligible for Study: Adult; Older Adult
• Accepts Healthy Volunteers: Yes

Description

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.

Study Plan

How is the study designed?

Design Details

• Primary Purpose: Other
• Allocation: Randomized
• Interventional Model: Parallel Assignment
• Masking: None (Open Label)

Number of Arms

2

Arms and Interventions

Participant Group / Arm	Intervention / Treatment
Experimental: Intervention group; 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.	Other: music therapy; Music intervention sessions will be applied to each participant for 5 weeks, 3 days a week, 20 minutes per session.
No Intervention: Control group; No application has been made. Forms will be applied at the first meeting and for five weeks.

What is the study measuring?

Primary Outcome Measures

Outcome Measure	Measure Description	Time Frame
Comfort	The scale consists of 39 items in total. Each statement in the scale has a Likert-type rating ranging from 1-4 from "strongly disagree" to "strongly agree". 24 of the expressions are positive and 15 are negative, and negative items are reversed in scoring. Accordingly, a high score (4) indicates high comfort, a low score (1) indicates low comfort, and a low score (1) indicates high comfort in negative statements, and a high score (4) indicates low comfort. The Cronbach alpha coefficient was found to be 0.915.	5 weeks after first meeting

Collaborators and Investigators

• Sponsor: TC Erciyes University
• Investigators: Principal Investigator: Sevda Korkut, TC Erciyes University; Principal Investigator: Ayşe Topuz, Karamanoğlu Mehmetbey University

Study record dates

Study Major Dates

• Study Start (Actual): August 14, 2023
• Primary Completion (Actual): September 18, 2023
• Study Completion (Actual): September 27, 2023

Study Registration Dates

• First Submitted: July 31, 2023
• First Submitted That Met QC Criteria: July 31, 2023
• First Posted (Actual): August 8, 2023

Study Record Updates

• Last Update Posted (Estimated): October 10, 2023
• Last Update Submitted That Met QC Criteria: October 7, 2023
• Last Verified: October 1, 2023

More Information

Terms related to this study

• Keywords: comfort; music therapy; nurse
• Other Study ID Numbers: 05/2023

Plan for Individual participant data (IPD)

• Plan to Share Individual Participant Data (IPD)?: NO

Drug and device information, study documents

• Studies a U.S. FDA-regulated drug product: No
• Studies a U.S. FDA-regulated device product: No