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ORIGINAL RESEARCH

Effect of Music Therapy on Sleep Quality

Mehtap Kavurmaci, PhD; Nuray Dayapoğlu, PhD; Mehtap Tan, PhD

ABSTRACT
Context • One of the important functions of nurses is to Invention • Students in the experimental group were
prepare a relaxing environment for patients, for whom they instructed to keep the volume of the personal MP3 player
look after and fulfill sleep needs. Today, music therapy, one to be used for listening to the music therapy below 70%
of nonpharmacological treatment approaches, can be used and to use it for 1 h/d at most. No intervention was
for enhancing the sleep quality of individuals. The increase applied to students in the control group. They were asked
of individuals’ sleep quality by using music therapy will to sustain their normal sleeping habits.
enable nurses to intervene in problems associated with sleep Outcome Measure • To collect the data, a questionnaire
disorders and prevent insomnia and other relevant problems. prepared by the researchers for determining
Objectives • This study was conducted to determine the sociodemographic characteristics of the students and
effect of music therapy on sleep quality of the students. PSQI were used.
Design • The research was an experimental pretest- Results • As a result of the study, it was found that the
posttest control group design. posttest PSQI mean scores of students in the experimental
Setting • The research was conducted among the students group, listening to music therapy, were lower than the
studying in the nursing department at a university in the mean scores of the students in the control group, and the
east of Turkey in the spring term of the academic year of difference between the groups was statistically significant.
2015–2016. Conclusions • As a result of this study, it was determined
Participant • Students who (1) got a total score of 5 and that music therapy increased the sleep quality of students.
higher according to the Pittsburgh Sleep Quality Index Being one of the nonpharmacological treatment
(PSQI), (2) had no neurological/psychiatric disorder, approaches intended for solving sleep problems, music
(3) had no hearing problem, (4) received no medical therapy is a pain-free, safe, and affordable treatment
treatment regarding sleep, and (5) volunteered to method without any side effect that could be used in every
participate in the study were included in the study. The area of health. (Altern Ther Health Med. 2020;26(4):22-
students who were included in the study were divided 26).
into experimental and control groups.

Mehtap Kavurmaci, PhD, is an associate professor in the Humans are complex beings with social, intellectual,
Department of Internal Medicine, Atatürk University, in mental, spiritual, and physical needs. They need to have
Erzurum, Turkey. Nuray Dayapoğlu, PhD, is an associate all these needs fulfilled in a balanced manner to be
professor in the Department of Internal Medicine, Atatürk healthy. Sleep is one of the basic human needs to be
University. Mehtap Tan, PhD, is an associate professor in the fulfilled. Human beings spend approximately one third of
Department of Internal Medicine, Atatürk University. their lives asleep. 1
Today, studies on sleep have been overemphasized. This
is associated with common complaints about sleep in society
Corresponding editor: Mehtap Kavurmaci, PhD and the presence of a strong correlation between sleep health
E-mail address: m.curcani@hotmail.com and physical and psychological well-being. In a study, it was
determined that there was an impairment in sleep quality at
the rate of 21.8%. and difficulty in falling asleep and problems
with waking up early at the rate of 34% in Turkish society. 2

22 ALTERNATIVE THERAPIES, JUL/AUG 2020 VOL. 26 NO. 4 Kavurmaci—Music Therapy and Sleep Quality