The Effect of Singing or Playing Melodica in COPD Patients

"The patients who were divided into groups according to their wishes to sing or play the melodica were given warm-up training before the song group (20 min. warm-up training including breathing exercises, 20 min. singing) and melodica group (20 min. breathing). warm-up training including exercises, playing melodica for 20 minutes) was given with the researcher under the leadership of an experienced music teacher.~For two weeks, a total of 40 minutes of song/melodica training was given per week. The singing group was given an assignment to sing for at least 20 minutes a day and the melodica playing group to play the melodica for at least 20 minutes a day. The patients were asked to do their song/melodica homework for at least 20-30 minutes a day, and then they were told about the follow-up papers.~Patients in the song/melody group were followed up by telephone twice a total of 15 days at the 5th and 7th weeks."

"In the first interview, the pre-tests were applied by the researcher with the face-to-face interview technique. Afterwards, nursing education was given through the training guide prepared according to Pender's health promotion model. The control group was followed up and counseled by phone, twice a day, twice a day, in the 5th and 7th weeks.~Post-tests were applied at week 10 to evaluate the effectiveness of the interventions."