음악요법이 기관지내시경검사 대상자의 불안과 불편감 감소에 미치는 영향

Effect of Music Therapy on Anxiety and Distress in Patients Undergoing Bronchoscopy

Purpose: The study was to investigate the effect of music therapy on reduction of anxiety & distress in the patients undergoing bronchoscopy. Methods: This research was nonequivalent control group pre-and post-test experimental design. The subjects were 29 patients who visited K hospital in G city for bronchoscopy They were randomly assigned to control group(14) and experimental group(15). Results: 1) The experimental group who treated with music therapy showed a significantly lower level of anxiety than that of the control group. 2)There were no significant differences on the post-test vital signs between two groups. 3) The experimental group who treated with music therapy showed a significantly lower level of subjective distress than that of the control group, and also the level of dyspnea and coughing in subscale of subjective distress, there were differences between two groups. 4) There were no significant differences on the objective distress between two groups. Conclusion: The music therapy was effective in reducing anxiety and subjective distress of patients undergoing bronchoscopy. But music therapy was not effective in reducing vital sign change and objective distress of patients undergoing bronchoscopy.