Impact of music therapy on diabetes distress and bio-physiological parameters in patients with diabetic foot ulcer.

Authors

Anju Ullas, Prabha Adhikari, K C Leena, Vijayalakshmi Subramaniam

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Journal of education and health promotion. Volume 15. Pages 348. Epub Aug 31, 2026.

Abstract

Diabetic foot ulcer (DFU) is a common and significant complication of uncontrolled diabetes mellitus (DM), frequently resulting in increased physiological suffering and emotional burden. Music therapy, as a complementary intervention, has shown potential in lowering stress and improving general well-being, but its influence on patients with DFU is unknown. The present study aimed to identify the impact of music therapy on diabetes distress and bio-physiological parameters among patients with DFU.
The study was conducted in a selected tertiary care hospital in South India, and a Quasi-experimental pretest-posttest control group research design was used. A non-probability purposive sampling was used to select 159 participants with DFU into three groups: Group I (n = 53) received patient-selected music therapy, Group II (n = 53) received researcher-selected music, and the control group (n = 53) received routine treatment only. The intervention involved listening to music for 20 minutes twice daily over 21 consecutive days, along with standard medical care. Ethical clearance was obtained from the institutional review board and ethics committee. Data were analyzed by descriptive and inferential statistics using SPSS version 26.
The study shows a statistically significant (p ˂ 0.001) difference within Groups I, II, compared to the control group for diabetes distress and all the bio-physiological parameters. However, the mean posttest scores of diabetes distress and bio-physiological parameters in Groups I and II were considerably reduced from the mean pretest scores compared to the control group.
The study finding helps to integrate music therapy as a complementary therapy for people with DFU to preserve good physical and mental health.

PMID:
42829690
Bibliographic data and abstract were imported from PubMed on 04 Oct 2026.

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