Effectiveness of Music Therapy
Effectiveness of Music Therapy
Tuberculosis belongs to chronic diseases as a result of the treatment of disease over a long
 period, admission to negative pressure isolation wards, and restrictions on visitors. During
 the in-patient admission, patients are vulnerable to social isolation and separation anxiety.
 If anxiety sustained, patients' quality of life would be affected. Thus, it is important to
 improve patients' experience of anxiety. Music has the effectiveness of relaxation, and is
 helpful to patients' anxious status and physiological responses. This study examined the
 effectiveness of music therapy on anxiety, depression and physiological responses for
 patients with tuberculosis.
The experimental study was conducted on a medical center of North Taiwan. 66 patients with
 Tuberculosis were included in this study. Patients who fit the inclusion criteria were
 randomly assigned to either experimental or control group. Patients in experimental group
 could choose a piece of CD and listen to music with earphone for 30 minutes. Patients in
 control group just rest for 30 minutes. The procedure was implemented once a day, and
 sustained for total 5 days.
Inclusion Criteria:

 1. Patient with TB (including patient with drug resistent).

 2. Age between 18~65.

 3. Conscious Patient without psychiatric/psychological disorders .

 4. Patient without Visual, audio disorder.

 5. Patient who is able to understand, speak Mandarin and/or Taiwanese, and is able to
 communicate with written or oral.

 Exclusion Criteria:

 1. Medical history of psychiatric/psychologic disorder, medication history of
 anti-anxiety or anti-depressant which might affect mental status.

 2. Patient with Visual, audio disorder.

 3. Patient who is not comply with 5 day music therapy.