Effect of the music on the sleeping quality of cancer patients

It is important to meet the fundamental human necessities in order to sustain the continuity of human's life. Sleep is fundamental, physiological life necessity affected by pataphysiological, physical and environmental factor. Sleeping problem is a disease that seen at patients who have long life chance especially in breast cancer. Aim of the treatment of patient with breast cancer; as well as saving last term of the patient life, provide relaxation by using behavioral methods like progressive relax, breath exercise, therapeutic touch, music therapy, yoga, biofeedback, revival in imagination and meditationResearch has done as a controlled and experimental clinic study in Gaziantep University Medical Faculty Oncology hospital between 01 October 2007 - 15 August 2008 to determine effect of listened music before go to bed on sleeping quality and satisfaction of patients with breast cancer who staying for treatment. When collecting data quastionnare form that prepared by researchers, Pittsburg Sleeping Quality İndex for measuring sleeping quality, Visual Analog Scale for measuring satisfaction of patients from procedure, tools are used. When evaluating data Ki ? Square, One ? Sample T test, Student T test, and Independent Samples T test, Paired Sample T test, One ? way Anova, Two-İndependent Samples Test and K İndependent Samples Test were usedAccording to the results of the study, it was determined that the listened music effected the sleeping quality of the patients who in experimental group, along staying in hospital sleeping quality of patient in control group getting worse, in experimental group strong correlation in negative side found between patient satisfaction and sleep quality value but this relationship wasn?t statistically meaningfull (p<0.05). Direction of the study results it is suggested that, because of the positive effect of the music on sleeping quality, music should count in nursing practice as a independent nursing intervention.Key Words: Patient, nurse, cancer, music, sleep quality.