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Randomized crossover trial studying the effect of music on examination anxiety
The purpose of this study was to assess the effect of lento music on examination anxiety among nursing students. A randomized crossover classroom-based trial was conducted. Thirty-eight students with a mean age of 19.4 years (SD = .54) were randomly assigned to either a music/silence or a silence/music group sequence. The students in the music group were given a 40-min group-based music intervention in a classroom, whereas the students in the silence group received the regular test without music. Using paired t-tests, there were no significant different in pretest scores for state anxiety, examination anxiety, finger temperature and pulse rate between the two conditions. Nonetheless, the findings indicated that music intervention did effectively decrease examination anxiety and state anxiety as well as reducing pulse rate and increasing higher finger temperature (p = 0.05 to 0.001). In addition, significant differences were detected between the pretest and posttest measures for silence (p = 0.001). The results suggest that lento music is effective at anxiety reduction. This study provides evidence for nursing faculty and clinical educators to foster nursing students' mastering over the anxiety of examination by using lento music.
Nurse Educ Today. 2008 Nov;28(8):909-16. Epub 2008 Jul 1. Lai HL, Chen PW, Chen CJ, Chang HK, Peng TC, Chang FM. Department of Nursing, Tzu Chi University, Taiwan, ROC. snowjade@mail.tcu.edu.tw
Posted: 11/04/2009
This article provided by The International Hypnosis Research Institute.
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