Authors : Amrita Jain
DOI : 10.18231/j.ijpns.2022.008
Volume : 5
Issue : 2
Year : 2022
Page No : 41-45
Post-operative patients experience varying degrees of pain, generalized discomfort or anxiety, loss of contro and sensitivity to unfamiliar noises may increase a patient's restlessness and perception of pain. If orders for opioid or non-opioid analgesics were written, the non-opioids, some of which had no analgesic properties, were given exclusively, in addition, the doses ordered were usually too small or too infrequent to be maximally effective.
Since the present study aims in investigating the effectiveness of music therapy to alleviate the post operative pain among school going childrens 6 – 12 years in Kamala Nehru Hospital & Research Center, Bhopal, Madhya Pradesh. The research design for this study was one group pre – test, post- test design pre experimental design The primary reason for selecting Kamala Nehru Hospital & Research Center Bhopal, Madhya Pradesh was familiarity, feasibility and expected cooperation from the hospital authorities in getting permission and conducting the study.
The percentage of pain perception score of school going children before the administration of music therapy. They are having on an average 48. 4 % pain perception before the administration of music therapy. The overall percentage of pain perception score of school going children after the administration of music therapy. They are having on an average 70.6 % pain perception after the administration of music therapy. The analysis of present study by chi – square table, that the age of the school going children, the DF is 1, the c2 value is 5.86, the concern value is 3.84 which is greater than table value so that it is considered as highly significant at 0.05 or 5%. Emotional status of the school going children the DF is 1, the c2 value is 9.81, the concern value is 3.84 which is greater than concern value so it is considered as highly significant at 5% or 0.05. Over all H1is accepted because there are significant association between the selected demographic variables by emotional status and age group of the childrens. The analysis of the present study the ‘z’ value is 31.0 which is Highly Significant, that is, greater than the tabulated value at 1%. This data signifies that the music therapy was very effective.
Keywords: M.P Madhya Pradesh, M. T. Music Therapy