Geetha, N (2011) Effectiveness of Music Therapy on Level of Depression among Elderly Women in a Selected Old Age Home at Coimbatore. Masters thesis, Annai Meenakshi College of Nursing, Coimbatore.
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Abstract
The reduction on level of depression among elderly women has an important role to play in enabling effectiveness of music therapy as an independent nursing intervention. The objective of the study was to evaluate the effectiveness of music therapy on level of depression among elderly women in a selected old age home. The research design adopted was quasi-experimental pre-test and post-test with control group design. The conceptual framework for this study was based on Wiedenbach’s Helping Art Of Clinical Nursing Theory (1964). The study has been conducted in Missionaries of charity old age home at Ramanatha puram, Coimbatore. Non-probability purposive sampling technique has been adopted to select the desired sample. The sample sizes were 60. Music therapy was administered daily for 30 minutes once in the morning for 15 days to experimental group. Routine nursing care intervention was given to control group. The data collected through structured interview and pre -test and post- test assessment by using GDS-15 (Brink.et.al, 1986). The collected data were analyzed by using both descriptive and inferential statistical methods. "t" test was used to evaluate the effectiveness of music therapy on level of depression among elderly women in a old age home. The obtained "t" value 14.95. The findings of the study revealed that the administration of music therapy helps in reducing on level of depression among elderly women in a selected old age home.
| Item Type: | Thesis (Masters) |
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| Uncontrolled Keywords: | Effectiveness, Music Therapy, Level of Depression, Elderly Women, Selected Old Age Home, Coimbatore. |
| Subjects: | NURSING > Psychiatric Nursing |
| Depositing User: | Subramani R |
| Date Deposited: | 29 Aug 2020 16:23 |
| Last Modified: | 30 Aug 2020 10:04 |
| URI: | http://repository-tnmgrmu.ac.in/id/eprint/13079 |
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