The effect of music therapy on anxiety and physiological parameters of patients with implantable cardioverter defibrillator

Objective:The study was conducted as a randomized experiment in order to specify the effect of music therapy on anxiety and physiological parameters of patients with ICD. Material and methods: The research was conducted in a training and research hospital in Istanbul. Stayed in the cardiology clinics from June to November 2019 and accepted to attend to the research voluntarily. Experimental group was composed of 30 patients and control group consisted of 30 patients. In the beginning, each group was requested to fill STAI and their physiological parameters were measured. Then, only experimental group listened 30 minutes of the Ussak Maqam via headphones. Afterwards, STAI was re-filled by each group once more. In the following one and a half hours, patient physiological parameters were measured every 30 minutes(30th, 60th, 90th). Descriptive statistics, Mann Whitney U, Friedman, İndependent Sample T, Dependent Sample T and Bonferroni tests were used to analyse data. p<0,05 was considered significant. Result: The pre-application state anxiety scale score of the experimental group was 42.80 ± 10.43 after 29 ± 7.54 (p<0,001), the pre-score of the control group was 49.50 ± 5.98 after the 49.66 ± 5.86 (p>0,05). State anxiety of the experimental group decreased. There was no difference in trait anxiety (p> 0.05). After the music therapy, the systolic and diastolic blood pressures of the experimental group decreased (p<0,05), there was no significant difference in pulse rate (p>0,05). Conclusion: Music therapy was found to reduce state anxiety and decrease systolic and diastolic blood pressure in ICD patients. Key words: Musıc therapy, anxiety, ICD, physiologic parameters, nursing.