EFFECT OF MUSIC THERAPY ON ANXIETY AND SLEEP QUALITY OF GERIATRIC HAEMATOLOGICAL ONCOLOGY PATIENTS

Introduction: Psychiatric symptoms that develop with the diagnosis of cancer are important in terms of affecting the severity of the patient's physical illness.This study was carried out to determine the effect of music therapy on anxiety and sleep quality of geriatric haematological oncology patients. Materials and Methods:This experimental clinical trial, a pretest-posttest study, was conducted with 60 older hematologic cancer patients.The patients were sorted into control and experimental groups (n = 30 in the control group; n = 30 in the experimental group).Data was collected via a sociodemographic form, the Pittsburgh Sleep Quality Index, and the State-Trait Anxiety Inventory.The participants in the experimental group listened to music every day for one week while the control group was not exposed to any intervention.Results: There was no statistically significant difference between the pretest Pittsburgh Sleep Quality Index and State-Trait Anxiety Inventory mean scores of the experimental and control groups.Pittsburgh Sleep Quality Index and State-Trait Anxiety Inventory mean score of the experimental group were lower than the control groups' . Conclusion:The intervention of music therapy was found to have an effect in reducing anxiety and increasing sleep quality of patients.Music therapy can be used as an alternative method of treating the anxiety and increasing the sleep quality of geriatric hematology patients.