Effectiveness of Music Therapy for Increasing Quality of Sleep among Workers in a Hospital, Rayong Province: Evaluation Using Smartwatches and PSQI Questionnaires
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This quasi-experimental study proposed to examine the effectiveness of music therapy in quality of sleep among workers in a hospital in Rayong province. This study included 60 workers, with each experimental and control group consisted of 30 workers. Both group were educated about Employee Assistance Program (EAP) but only experimental group received the qualified music therapy by listening to music for 3 - 5 mins daily before bed-time for 8 weeks. The quality of sleep was measured by Thai-PSQI questionnaire and smartwatches. Descriptive statistic and independent t-test: two-sample were used in this study.
Result indicated that the majority of hospital workers had sleep 4.7 - 5.4 hours sleep per day. The deep sleep ratio was 0.20. The experimental group reduced the amount of time used before going to sleep with statistical significant level of .05. Relative risk ratio for music therapy with EAP educational and EAP educational alone was 1.44.
Suggestion: Physician should consider music therapy as non-medication treatment to promote sleep hygiene in those working-age groups with bad quality of sleep
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