• Pilla Parvathi
• M R Sijo pc

Children in hospitals frequently experience trouble sleeping due to factors such as stress, pain, and changes in their environment. This quasi-experimental study set out to determine whether children hospitalized in certain Bengaluru hospitals could benefit from music therapy, more especially guided imagery relaxation set to recorded piano music, in terms of getting a better night's rest. A total of sixty children, ranging in severity from moderate to severe, were randomly selected and split evenly between an experimental and control group. The participants' sleep duration was recorded using a structured sleep scale both before and after the test. Ten days of music therapy were administered to the experimental group, while the control group underwent standard care without music intervention. After the intervention, 66.7% of the children in the experimental group reported only mild sleep disturbances, down from 13.3% before the intervention, demonstrating a statistically significant improvement in sleep disturbance scores. The results of the statistical analysis showed that the quality of sleep significantly improved after the intervention (t = 13.05, p < 0.05) and that there was a significant difference in the post-test scores of the experimental and control groups (t = 3.2, p < 0.05). Physical and physiological sleep manifestations showed the most improvement when analyzed area-wise. There were no statistically significant correlations between the demographic variables and the improvement in sleep quality. Regardless of demographic differences, the study found that music therapy was an effective non-pharmacological intervention to enhance sleep in hospitalized children.

Music therapy, hospitalized children, guided imagery, non-pharmacological intervention, pediatric care, quasi-experimental study.

"A STUDY TO ASSESS THE EFFECTIVENESS OF MUSIC THERAPY ON SLEEP AMONG HOSPITALIZED CHILDREN IN SELECTED HOSPITAL, BENAGLURU", International Journal of Emerging Technologies and Innovative Research (www.jetir.org), ISSN:2349-5162, Vol.12, Issue 4, page no.l800-l812, April-2025, Available :http://www.jetir.org/papers/JETIR2504B98.pdf

"A STUDY TO ASSESS THE EFFECTIVENESS OF MUSIC THERAPY ON SLEEP AMONG HOSPITALIZED CHILDREN IN SELECTED HOSPITAL, BENAGLURU", International Journal of Emerging Technologies and Innovative Research (www.jetir.org | UGC and issn Approved), ISSN:2349-5162, Vol.12, Issue 4, page no. ppl800-l812, April-2025, Available at : http://www.jetir.org/papers/JETIR2504B98.pdf