[PJ-1-3] Exploring the effect of binaural beat music on the sleep quality of seniors in institutions: A pilot study
Background:
Poor sleep quality is a common problem among seniors, but it is more serious for seniors in long-term care institutions. If it accumulates for a long time, it will easily lead to negative impacts on health outcomes. Recent studies have pointed out that binaural beats music can effectively improve sleep quality problems, but there is still a lack of empirical evidence on the sleep quality of seniors in long-term care institutions. Therefore, this study aims to explore the effect of binaural beat music on the sleep quality of seniors in long-term care institutions.
Methods:
This study adopted a randomized controlled experiment, and recruited participants in a long-term care institution in central Taiwan from November 2022 to February 2023. Participants were randomly assigned to either the experimental group listening to binaural beat music or the control group listening to old Taiwanese songs. All participants listened at 8:30-9:30 am and 4:00-5:00 pm, three days (6 times) a week, 15 minutes each time, for 2 consecutive weeks. The Chinese Version of the Pittsburgh Sleep Quality Index (C-PSQI) data was collected before and after the intervention. The statistical method primarily used the Wilcoxon rank-sum test to analyze the change difference of the C-PSQI.
Results:
A total of 13 seniors (2 males and 11 females) from long-term care institutions were recruited in this study, with an average age of 83.3 years. The results showed that compared with the control group, the subjective sleep quality of the participants in the experimental group tended to improve, but the difference was not significant (p=0.092).
Conclusion:
The results of this study show that binaural beat music may have the potential to improve the subjective sleep quality of seniors in long-term care institutions. However, due to the small sample size, more samples and related research will be needed to confirm this in the future.
Poor sleep quality is a common problem among seniors, but it is more serious for seniors in long-term care institutions. If it accumulates for a long time, it will easily lead to negative impacts on health outcomes. Recent studies have pointed out that binaural beats music can effectively improve sleep quality problems, but there is still a lack of empirical evidence on the sleep quality of seniors in long-term care institutions. Therefore, this study aims to explore the effect of binaural beat music on the sleep quality of seniors in long-term care institutions.
Methods:
This study adopted a randomized controlled experiment, and recruited participants in a long-term care institution in central Taiwan from November 2022 to February 2023. Participants were randomly assigned to either the experimental group listening to binaural beat music or the control group listening to old Taiwanese songs. All participants listened at 8:30-9:30 am and 4:00-5:00 pm, three days (6 times) a week, 15 minutes each time, for 2 consecutive weeks. The Chinese Version of the Pittsburgh Sleep Quality Index (C-PSQI) data was collected before and after the intervention. The statistical method primarily used the Wilcoxon rank-sum test to analyze the change difference of the C-PSQI.
Results:
A total of 13 seniors (2 males and 11 females) from long-term care institutions were recruited in this study, with an average age of 83.3 years. The results showed that compared with the control group, the subjective sleep quality of the participants in the experimental group tended to improve, but the difference was not significant (p=0.092).
Conclusion:
The results of this study show that binaural beat music may have the potential to improve the subjective sleep quality of seniors in long-term care institutions. However, due to the small sample size, more samples and related research will be needed to confirm this in the future.