%0 Journal Article
%T Effects of Listening to Live Singing in Patients Undergoing Hemodialysis: A Randomized Controlled Crossover Study
%A Francesco Burrai
%A Gabriele Donati
%A Gaetano Lamanna
%A Marco Luppi
%A Rajeev Raghavan
%A Rossella Lupi
%A Valentina Micheluzzi
%J Biological Research For Nursing
%@ 1552-4175
%D 2019
%R 10.1177/1099800418802638
%X Participation in music therapy is associated with improved psychological and physical indices among chronically ill patients. Listening to music during hemodialysis treatments positively affects patients¡¯ hemodynamics, laboratory values, quality of life, and physical symptoms. The effect of live singing during hemodialysis treatments, however, has not previously been studied. A total of 24 participants with a diagnosis of end-stage kidney disease participated in the study. The vocalist was a musically trained dialysis nurse. Twelve of the patients listened to 15 min of live singing during 6 consecutive hemodialysis sessions, while the other 12 underwent standard hemodialysis. After a washout period of 2 days, the two groups were reversed. Listening to live music was associated with improvements in systolic and diastolic blood pressure, better quality of sleep, fewer cramps, and reduced anxiety/depression, pain, and itching (p < .05, all values). Listening to live music during hemodialysis is an effective and potentially low-cost therapy for the dialysis care team to employ during hemodialysis treatments
%K music therapy
%K hemodialysis
%K holistic nursing
%K music
%K end-stage kidney disease
%U https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10.1177/1099800418802638