EFFECT OF MUSIC THERAPY ON ANXIETY AND SLEEP QUALITY OF GERIATRIC HAEMATOLOGICAL ONCOLOGY PATIENTS

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Introduction: Psychiatric symptoms that develop with the diagnosis of cancerare important in terms of affecting the severity of the patient’s physical illness. Thisstudy was carried out to determine the effect of music therapy on anxiety and sleepquality of geriatric haematological oncology patients.Materials and Methods: This experimental clinical trial, a pretest-postteststudy, was conducted with 60 older hematologic cancer patients. The patientswere sorted into control and experimental groups (n = 30 in the control group; n= 30 in the experimental group). Data was collected via a sociodemographic form,the Pittsburgh Sleep Quality Index, and the State-Trait Anxiety Inventory. Theparticipants in the experimental group listened to music every day for one weekwhile the control group was not exposed to any intervention.Results: There was no statistically significant difference between the pretestPittsburgh Sleep Quality Index and State-Trait Anxiety Inventory mean scores ofthe experimental and control groups. Pittsburgh Sleep Quality Index and StateTrait Anxiety Inventory mean score of the experimental group were lower than thecontrol groups’.Conclusion: The intervention of music therapy was found to have an effect inreducing anxiety and increasing sleep quality of patients. Music therapy can be usedas an alternative method of treating the anxiety and increasing the sleep quality ofgeriatric hematology patients.