The idea of the article was to answer a very important question; what effect does music play as a therapeutic intervention on those patients who are undergoing dialysis? After reading the review more than once I was left with a clear concise understanding of the results. Kim, Evangelista and Park (2015) painted a picture by stating relatively close to the beginning of the paper that “anxiety is a common emotion affecting patients on maintenance hemodialysis (p.339).” Researchers set out to find a way to make the life of patients a tad bit easier and less stressful while going through dialysis. Being sick is hard enough but patients also must drive to and from dialysis, wait for their machine and then sit and go through the procedure. During
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I researched many different papers written and published, peer reviewed articles and found similar results such as this “randomized partially controlled study” that included 26 dialysis patients. The researchers Brown, Mahaseth, & Norton “examined the relationship of relaxation music and acute pain (2010).” Brown et al. assigned each patient to either a control group or experimental group and made an initial assessment of “pain, blood pressure, pulse and respirations (Brown et al, 2010)” within three minutes prior to dialysis start. After thirty minutes of relaxation music for the experimental group and for the control group each patient was reassessed. The experiment states that “pain reduction was reported in 23% of the experimental group, as compared to 12% of those in the control group (Brown et al, 2010)”. According to an article written by News Medical Life Sciences a music therapist by the name of Anci Sandell went to the Nordic school of Public Health in Sweden on February 22, 2013 to defend a doctoral thesis she wrote stating that “music therapy has positive effects on perceived quality of life (News Medical Life Sciences, 2013).”
Summary
Per Marita G. Titler “nursing has a rich history of using research in practice, pioneered by Florence Nightingale (2008)”. That’s what this review shows. This review shows beyond a shadow of a doubt that nursing interventions can go beyond medication for depression and pain. Nursing can give a little bit of happiness, joy and quality of life to their patients while they undergo dialysis by simple means of music
I researched many different papers written and published, peer reviewed articles and found similar results such as this “randomized partially controlled study” that included 26 dialysis patients. The researchers Brown, Mahaseth, & Norton “examined the relationship of relaxation music and acute pain (2010).” Brown et al. assigned each patient to either a control group or experimental group and made an initial assessment of “pain, blood pressure, pulse and respirations (Brown et al, 2010)” within three minutes prior to dialysis start. After thirty minutes of relaxation music for the experimental group and for the control group each patient was reassessed. The experiment states that “pain reduction was reported in 23% of the experimental group, as compared to 12% of those in the control group (Brown et al, 2010)”. According to an article written by News Medical Life Sciences a music therapist by the name of Anci Sandell went to the Nordic school of Public Health in Sweden on February 22, 2013 to defend a doctoral thesis she wrote stating that “music therapy has positive effects on perceived quality of life (News Medical Life Sciences, 2013).”
Summary
Per Marita G. Titler “nursing has a rich history of using research in practice, pioneered by Florence Nightingale (2008)”. That’s what this review shows. This review shows beyond a shadow of a doubt that nursing interventions can go beyond medication for depression and pain. Nursing can give a little bit of happiness, joy and quality of life to their patients while they undergo dialysis by simple means of music