Managing the spinal cord injures involve immobilization of the fracture site and realignment of any dislocation. The effects of immobility are systemic and functional. For a number of years it has been recognized, that post traumatic stress disorder (1980) which can affect people who have experienced any serious accident or trauma.The investigator was also interested to test the music therapy for stress reduction. This study is done to assess the efficacy of music therapy on stress reduction among spinal cord injury patients.A quasi experimental approach was selected to conduct the study among 35 male patients who are suffering with spinal cord on the fifth day of the admission, without complications at the paraplegic unit of orthopedic department, Government General Hospital, Chennai. Samples were selected by convenience sampling technique.Instruments. The instruments used in this study
consisted of three parts.
Part 1: Demographic data.
Part 2: Stress assessment scale.
Part 3: The observational check list. This check list consists of physiological signs of stress in the patient.
Music therapy significantly reduced the overall psychological stress level of the patients with various age, education, occupation, income, marital status, types of family they live, duration of injury and level of injury. Similarly music therapy reduced the physical parameters, like systolic pressure and diastolic pressure and further it increases the oxygen saturation level which was low. Moreover the music therapy reduced the physiological- stress signs among the spinal cord injury patients.
Key words: Stress, Music Therapy
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