Effect of Music Therapy on Anxiety Among Patients Undergoing Cardiac Catheterization at Selected Hospital, Coimbatore

Abstract

The study to assess the effect of Music therapy on anxiety among patients undergoing cardiac catheterization at selected hospital, Coimbatore was carried out using a preexperimental, non-equivalent posttest only control group design. By using purposive sampling technique 60 samples were selected, and 30 were assigned to the experimental group and control group respectively. A non-lyrical, veena based instrumental music composed in the raga Hamsadvani and Dwijavanti was administered to the patients in the experimental group for 30 minutes prior to the cardiac catheterization. Routine treatment was provided to the patients in the control group. 30 minutes after the intervention the level of anxiety among patients undergoing cardiac catheterization was assessed using the state trait anxiety inventory in both the groups. The calculated mean level of Anxiety and standard deviation in the experimental and control group were 75.9 and 118.26, 7.16 and 8.04, respectively. The mean difference was 42.3. The calculated ‘t’ value 22.41 was greater than the table value 3.29 at 0.001 level of significance. Hence, it was concluded that music therapy is an effective therapeutic intervention in reducing the level of anxiety among patients undergoing cardiac catheterization.