NCT04540172

The Effect of Music Therapy and Progressive Muscle Relaxation Exercise on Anxiety Before the First Clinical Practice

Music Therapy and Progressive Muscle Relaxation Exercise

• Status: Completed
• Phase: N/A
• Study type: Interventional
• Enrollment: 96 (actual)
• Sponsor: Istanbul Saglik Bilimleri University · Academic / Other
• Sex: All
• Age: 18 Years
• Healthy volunteers: Accepted

Summary

This study was carried out to evaluate the effect of music therapy and progressive muscle relaxation exercise on the state and trait anxiety levels before their first clinical practice in nursing students.

Detailed description

This randomized controlled experimental study sample consisted of 86 nursing students who will be firstly applied to clinical practice. The students were randomly assigned to music (n=30), exercise (n=28), and control (n=28) groups. The data of the study were collected with Student Information Form and State-Trait Anxiety Scale. The music therapy intervention was applied to the experimental groups three times a week for the first 2 weeks.

Conditions

• Anxiety
• Stress

Interventions

Type	Name	Description
BEHAVIORAL	Music Therapy	"Mahur tune," one of the nonverbal instruments of the Traditional Turkish Music Authorities, was selected for the study with the opinion of a music therapy specialist.
BEHAVIORAL	Progressive Muscle Relaxation Exercise	In this study, the steps of applying progressive muscle relaxation exercise were created with the guidance of the "Relaxation Exercises " materials of the Turkish Psychological Association.

Timeline

• Start date: 2019-08-01
• Primary completion: 2019-10-01
• Completion: 2019-12-01
• First posted: 2020-09-07
• Last updated: 2020-09-09

Locations

1 site across 1 country: Turkey (Türkiye)