In a study by Kilpatrick, Lavoie-Tremblay, Lamothe, Ritchie, & Doran (2013), the purpose was to describes a new conceptual framework for acute care nurse practitioner role enactment, boundary work and perceptions of team effectiveness. The sample consisted of 52 cancer patients who were admitted to the Medical Oncology ward at Policlinico Sant’Orsola Malpighi in Bologna, Italy. The study design was a randomized controlled study. The method used was a nonparametric Mann-Whitney test. The power of this nonparametric test is around 95.5% of the parametric test, so they estimated that a sample size of patients (n1=n2=52) was necessary achieve the desired statistical power. Patients were randomized to either a control group (n=26) or, an
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The patients in the music group were allowed to choose to listened to 5 or 6 musical pieces of very different styles including relaxing, cheerful, lively pieces, pop, classical, film scores, folk, and jazz played with the saxophone for about 30 minutes. At the end of the 30-minute live music performance, the patient returned to his room in hospital. Part 2 (Physiological parameters: systolic blood pressure, diastolic blood pressure, pulse rate, glycemia, and oxygen saturation ) and part 3 ( Pain level, and mood level, using the VAS ) of the instrument were administered as baseline before the 30-minute music intervention in week 1. For week 2 to week 4, part 2 and part 3 of the instrument were administered after the music intervention. Patients in the control group received non -music intervention (30-minute rest period) before part 2 and part 3 data were collected. The estimated outcome was mood level and pain level measured by visual analog scale (VAS) for mood and pain, which measures mood level on a scale from 0 to 10, where 0 would describe “a great mood” and 10 would describe “the worst mood possible”. Similarly, pain intensity was measured on a scale from 0 to 10, where 0 would describe “absence of pain” and 10 would describe “the worst pain
The patients in the music group were allowed to choose to listened to 5 or 6 musical pieces of very different styles including relaxing, cheerful, lively pieces, pop, classical, film scores, folk, and jazz played with the saxophone for about 30 minutes. At the end of the 30-minute live music performance, the patient returned to his room in hospital. Part 2 (Physiological parameters: systolic blood pressure, diastolic blood pressure, pulse rate, glycemia, and oxygen saturation ) and part 3 ( Pain level, and mood level, using the VAS ) of the instrument were administered as baseline before the 30-minute music intervention in week 1. For week 2 to week 4, part 2 and part 3 of the instrument were administered after the music intervention. Patients in the control group received non -music intervention (30-minute rest period) before part 2 and part 3 data were collected. The estimated outcome was mood level and pain level measured by visual analog scale (VAS) for mood and pain, which measures mood level on a scale from 0 to 10, where 0 would describe “a great mood” and 10 would describe “the worst mood possible”. Similarly, pain intensity was measured on a scale from 0 to 10, where 0 would describe “absence of pain” and 10 would describe “the worst pain