The Effect of Music Therapy on Nurses

Study Overview
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Brief Summary
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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.

Detailed Description
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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.

Official Title
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The Effect of Music Therapy on Nurses' Comfort Levels

Conditions
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Music Therapy

Intervention / Treatment
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* Other: music therapy


Participation Criteria
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Eligibility Criteria
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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.

Ages Eligible for Study
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Minimum Age: 18 Years
Maximum Age: 65 Years

Sexes Eligible for Study
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All

Accepts Healthy Volunteers
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Accepts Healthy Volunteers

Study Plan
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How is the study designed?
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Design Details

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


Arms and Interventions

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

What is the study measuring?
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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 | 

 Terms related to the study
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Keywords Provided by Centre Hospitalier Valida
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nurse, comfort, music therapy