NCT05168241

The Effect of Singing or Playing Melodica in COPD Patients

The Effect of Singing or Playing Melodica on Disease Symptoms, Self-Efficacy Level and Exercise Capacity in Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Patients

• Status: Completed
• Phase: N/A
• Study type: Interventional
• Enrollment: 30 (actual)
• Sponsor: Karadeniz Technical University · Academic / Other
• Sex: All
• Age: 18 Years
• Healthy volunteers: Not accepted

Summary

This study was conducted as a randomized controlled experimental study to determine the effect of singing or playing melodica activity applied to chronic obstructive pulmonary patients on symptoms, self-efficacy level, and exercise capacity of patients.

Detailed description

The research was carried out in the chest diseases polyclinics of a hospital in Trabzon city center between September 2020 and August 2021 with 30 patients: 15 in the control group and 15 in the song/melodica group. Based on Pender's health promotion model, the control group received training and counseling for ten weeks, including face-toface training and telephone follow-up. According to Pender's health promotion model, patients in the song/melodica group were given face-to-face training once, singing/playing the melodica training twice, and counseling and follow-up over the phone twice, with 15- day intervals. The data were collected with a patient information form and scales examining disease symptoms, self-efficacy, and exercise capacity. To evaluate the data, ttest, Mann-Whitney U, ANOVA, Kruskal Wallis test were used for independent groups to evaluate changes over time, and paired two-sample t-test, Wilcoxon test, and ANOVA test were used in repetitive measurements for dependent groups. .

Conditions

• Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease

Interventions

Type	Name	Description
OTHER	song/melodica group	The patients who were divided into groups according to their wishes to sing or play the melodica were given warm-up training before the song group (20 min. warm-up training including breathing exercises, 20 min. singing) and melodica group (20 min. breathing). warm-up training including exercises, playing melodica for 20 minutes) was given with the researcher under the leadership of an experienced music teacher. For two weeks, a total of 40 minutes of song/melodica training was given per week. The singing group was given an assignment to sing for at least 20 minutes a day and the melodica playing group to play the melodica for at least 20 minutes a day. The patients were asked to do their song/melodica homework for at least 20-30 minutes a day, and then they were told about the follow-up papers. Patients in the song/melody group were followed up by telephone twice a total of 15 days at the 5th and 7th weeks.
OTHER	control group	In the first interview, the pre-tests were applied by the researcher with the face-to-face interview technique. Afterwards, nursing education was given through the training guide prepared according to Pender's health promotion model. The control group was followed up and counseled by phone, twice a day, twice a day, in the 5th and 7th weeks. Post-tests were applied at week 10 to evaluate the effectiveness of the interventions.

Timeline

• Start date: 2020-09-01
• Primary completion: 2021-08-31
• Completion: 2021-08-31
• First posted: 2021-12-23
• Last updated: 2021-12-23

Locations

1 site across 1 country: Turkey (Türkiye)