Music Therapy for Individuals Receiving Hemodialysis Treatment

Change from Baseline in Itch on the 5-D Itch Scale at Week 4,Change from Baseline in Muscle Cramps on the Visual Analog Scale at Week 4,Change from Baseline in Comfort on the Hemodialysis Comfort Scale -Version II at Week 4

There are studies in the world where music therapy is used in the management of symptoms in
 hemodialysis, but the number of studies in our country is insufficient. This study will be
 carried out to determine the effect of music therapy on itching, muscle cramps and comfort
 level in individuals receiving hemodialysis HD treatment.
 
 The research will be conducted in the Amasya Sabuncuoğlu Şerefeddin Training and Research
 Hospital Dialysis Unit Hemodialysis Clinic, with a pre-test post-test single group,
 quasi-experimental research design. The sample of the research; It will constitute 38
 individuals aged 18 and over who have been receiving hemodialysis treatment for at least 6
 months. Music therapy will be applied to the participants in the clinic for 30 minutes after
 the 2nd hour of each hemodialysis session for 4 weeks.
 
 Research data will be collected between January and March 2024 using the Introductory
 Information Form, 5-D Itch Scale, Visual Analog Scale and KHemodialysis Comfort Scale
 -Version II.
 
 Data collection forms will be applied twice in total, at the end of the 1st session (pretest)
 and at the end of the 8th session (posttest). The data obtained from the research will be
 analyzed in the Statistical Package for Social Science (SPSS) 21 statistical program.
 Variables covering the descriptive characteristics of the participants will be expressed in
 numbers and percentages. Whether the data has a normal distribution will be determined by the
 Kolmogrov Smirnov test and parametric and/or nonparametric tests will be used according to
 the results obtained. Statistical significance value will be accepted as p.05.