Thulasi, L (2016) A study to assess the effectiveness of music therapy on depressive symptoms among elderly people in selected geriatric home at Chennai. Masters thesis, College of Nursing, Madras Medical College, Chennai.
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Title A study to assess the effectiveness of music therapy on depressive symptoms among elderly people in selected geriatric home, at Chennai. Successful ageing is reflected in the ability of older people to adapt to physical, social and emotional losses and to achieve contentment, security and life satisfaction. Because changes in life patterns are inevitable over a life time, older people need resiliency and coping skills when confronting depressive symptoms and change. Need for the study: Failure to adaptations of the ageing which can leads to frustration, loneliness, bitterness, and insecurity which makes older people prone for later life depression. The demand for curing depression is on the rise globally. Music therapy helps to relax and get healed up from depressive symptoms especially for elderly people. Objectives: 1. To identify the socio demographic variables of the elderly people in selected geriatric home at Chennai. 2. To assess the depressive level before music therapy among elderly people in selected geriatric home at Chennai. 3. To evaluate the depressive level after music therapy among elderly people in selected geriatric home at Chennai. 4. To determine the effectiveness of the music therapy intervention. 5. To find the association of post test score with selected demographic variables. Methodology: Research approach: Quantitative approach Research design: One group pretest and posttest Pre-experimental design. Sampling technique: Convenient sampling technique. Study population: Elderly people residing in geriatric home. Sample size: A Sample of 60 elderly people is selected for this study. Tool: Geriatric Depression Scale. Study setting: kalaiselvi karunalaya old age home at west mogapair. Data collection procedure: Old melodies songs were played through compact disc attached with speakers twice a day for four weeks. Data analysis: Demographic variables and clinical variables were analysed with descriptive statistics (percentage, mean, standard deviation) and correlated the levels of depressive scores with demographic variables by inferential statistics (paired‘t’ test and chi square)Study Results: The study shows the pretest score were 16.72 with standard deviation of ± 3.88. The posttests score were8.30 with standard deviation of ±2.16. This study revealed that music therapy as effective and healed the depressive symptoms among the elderly people. So the differences are large and it showed statistically significant difference (P ≤ 0.001) in paired test. Discussion: Depression being one of the causes of a variety of diseases and disorders in the world today, especially in elderly population, through this study it was proven that music therapy reduces the level of Depressive symptoms among elderly suffering from Depression. Therefore it is suggested that Music therapy can be done in all types of groups in long term basis as well for reducing depression. Hence the objectives have been achieved and hypothesis is proved. Conclusion: There is effectiveness in music therapy on depressive symptoms among elderly people. Since it is cost effective it can be practiced in home settings. So the investigator conducted a study to assess the effectiveness of music therapy on depressive symptoms among elderly people in selected geriatric home at Chennai.
| Item Type: | Thesis (Masters) |
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| Uncontrolled Keywords: | Elderly people ; Music therapy ; Depressive symptoms. |
| Subjects: | NURSING > Psychiatric Nursing |
| Depositing User: | Ramakrishnan J |
| Date Deposited: | 05 Jul 2017 10:50 |
| Last Modified: | 13 Feb 2018 03:40 |
| URI: | http://repository-tnmgrmu.ac.in/id/eprint/1030 |
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