EFFECT OF SOUND WAVE REPATTERNING ON SYMPTOMS OF MENOPAUSAL WOMEN.
Contributors: Texas Woman's University.
Published: 1984
Number of pages: 132
Subjects: Health Sciences, Nursing.
Description: This research investigated the relationship between sound wave repatterning as a nursing intervention and the symptoms of a selected population of menopausal women. The purposes were (a) to empirically test Rogers' theory for usefulness in clinical nursing, (b) to investigate how an intervention used to alter the rhythmical relationship between human beings and environment manifests itself in a repatterning of the human field, and (c) to study the pattern and organization of menopausal women integral with the environment. The theoretical basis for the study was Rogers' Science of Unitary Human Beings. The main research hypothesis tested was: There is a relationship between sound wave repatterning and the transformation of the human field.

An experimental two-group, before/after research design was used to collect data. The selection criteria included women ages 40 to 60 who could read, write, and understand English and stated they were experiencing menopausal symptoms. Excluded from the study were women who had a death of a significant other in the past 3 months. The sampling procedure was a nonprobability method using random assignment to the experimental and control group by odd-even rotation. The sample was recruited from various school groups, health spas, women's organizations, and by direct referral from other nurses or health professionals.

Subjects in the experimental group listened to sound tapes three times per week for 2 weeks, in addition to their normal routine activities. Control group subjects received no experimental treatment but continued with their normal activities. After 2 weeks, all subjects returned the posttest directly to the investigator in a stamped, self-addressed envelope.

Findings were based on the 27 menopausal women who completed the study's protocol. Each dependent variable was analyzed with analysis of covariance techniques with the appropriate pretest as a covariate. The findings of this study revealed a significant difference between the experimental and control groups' frequency of symptoms (p = .01), somatic symptoms (p = .03), and psychological symptoms (p = .03). No significant differences were found between groups' psychosomatic symptoms, number of symptoms, or Blatt Menopausal scores.
Notes: Source: Dissertation Abstracts International, Volume: 46-03, Section: B, page: 0796.

Thesis (PH.D.)--TEXAS WOMAN'S UNIVERSITY, 1984.

School code: 0925.